Saturday, October 29th, 2016
Stephan: This is an excellent profile of the White nativism that is the hallmark of Trump supporters. Unfortunately the Trump view is a fantasy vision. I was a teenager in the late 50s, already involved with the civil rights movement, and sharply aware of how racially skewed privilege was in the U.S., also how biased against women the American system was -- this was the "Father Knows Best" Eisenhower era. And as for the LGBT world, except for two Roman Catholic priests who tried unsuccessfully to molest me, I knew nothing of men being gay, although looking back across those years I am almost sure two of my boys' school classmates and at least one girl from a nearby girls' school, all good friends, were LGBT. This were the days of the deep closet.
A supporter of Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump waits for his campaign rally to begin at the Richmond Coliseum in Richmond, Virginia, U.S., June 10, 2016.
Credit: Reuters/Joshua Roberts
If you ever had the sneaking suspicion that “Make America Great Again” was code for “Turn America’s clock back to the 1950s,” a new poll suggests you were absolutely right.
According to a
survey published by the Public Religion Research Institute, 72 percent of likely voters supporting Donald Trump say America has changed for the worst since the 1950s. By contrast, 70 percent of likely voters supporting Hillary Clinton say that America has changed for the better since that decade.
Not surprisingly, these findings are also sharply divided based on racial lines. While 56 percent of white Americans say America has changed for the worse since the 1950s, 62 percent of African-Americans and 57 percent […]