Among white people, the correlation between racial resentment and their voting decision is much, much stronger than between educational attainment and political alignment.

In fact, if you control for racial resentment, education polarization basically disappears.

The tribune of the poor, the downtrodden? Studies clearly indicate that Trump’s most ardent supporters, especially in poorer areas, are, by local standards, quite wealthy / financially stable. Their “economic anxiety” is mostly downstream from anxieties over racial and cultural status.

when Arab nationalists, many of whom pretend to be leftists, say "Israel stole our Jews" specifically about Yemen, what they are demanding is that their slaves be given back.

It doesn't help vulnerable kids, and I've seen too many trans teens and young adults on reddit posting their suicidal ideation in threads that reference her doom posting, and talking about how they don't want to be around to live through the doom she's convinced them is coming. It's actively harmful

The Trump Administration's response to the terrible shooting of two National Guard members feels almost like it was prepackaged and ready to go.

He was a refugee and we had worked together to help others— so the fact that someone could say something like that…it is a mind-fuck tbh

He wasn’t a citizen so did vote but he supported Trump. And then he said don’t worry he will only go after the “bad Afghans” who come illegally from Mexico. Not people like me. … so… that too went into my burn out pile

They’re are very misogynistic culture and they believed he would go back to Afghanistan to liberate that Bagran airbase he talked about. I literally cut someone l had volunteered with off because he said l was overreacting about Trump winning…

All the time we were worried something like this would happen— but it didn’t happen during Biden administration. And now it did- it’s just heartbreaking. For everyone, including the family who lost a daughter.