As Buckle says, following the 2024 election, the media and lots of other commentators defaulted to the easy, lazy, false narrative that "economic anxiety" drives Trump voters:
"Far-left radicals, socialists, liberals, centrists, old-fashioned conservatives, academics, mainstream journalists, and everyone else who simply cannot imagine voting for the man themselves, all tend to default to one narrative:"
#Trump #economy #race #gender #cruelty #solidarity #CommonGood
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