What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[11B4V]

No one is safe...

Bannon on Catholic Church's DACA support: 'They need illegal aliens to fill the churches'

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/07/politics/bannon-catholic-church/index.html

[Razgovory]

The rest here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/?utm_source=fbb

So does Coates get paid by the word?

[Admiral Yi]

Interesting. Why is that?

He's one of the reasons I gave up on The Atlantic.  Heavy on style, light on logic.

[Oexmelin]

I told you people all this last November.  But no, as usual, when CdM traffics in the truth, Languish misses the bus with their rolleyes bullshit.  Gimme my Pulitzer.

You should write.

[Eddie Teach]

Nah, he should do standup.

[Tonitrus]

Nah, he should write for Rolling Stone.

[Maximus]

Or Teen Vogue

[Eddie Teach]

Or Teen Vogue

Isn't that Tim's gig?

[jimmy olsen]

Oh my God!

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/905829892750798848

Trump, Schumer agree to pursue plan to repeal the debt ceiling

Picture of Donald Trump and the Republican Party

[FunkMonk]

Interesting. Why is that?

He's one of the reasons I gave up on The Atlantic.  Heavy on style, light on logic.

Pretty much. He writes very well but that is about it for me. There is a kernel of truth in what he writes but he relies so heavy on the prose that I think it hurts his point in whatever argument he's trying to make.

[jimmy olsen]

Interesting. Why is that?

He's one of the reasons I gave up on The Atlantic.  Heavy on style, light on logic.

Pretty much. He writes very well but that is about it for me. There is a kernel of truth in what he writes but he relies so heavy on the prose that I think it hurts his point in whatever argument he's trying to make.

His argument is pretty simple, that you can't accurately analyze American politics without admitting that alot of it is shaped, directly and inderictly, by white supremacy and instutional racism.

[FunkMonk]

Interesting. Why is that?

He's one of the reasons I gave up on The Atlantic.  Heavy on style, light on logic.

Pretty much. He writes very well but that is about it for me. There is a kernel of truth in what he writes but he relies so heavy on the prose that I think it hurts his point in whatever argument he's trying to make.

His argument is pretty simple, that you can't accurately analyze American politics without admitting that alot of it is shaped, directly and inderictly, by white supremacy and instutional racism.

No shit, genius. I'm saying he works against his own argument (which I actually kind of agree with) by being shit at actually persuading people by being light on logic and preaching to the choir.

[The Minsky Moment]

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Trump, in the Atlantic:

It's true that Trump won white men by 31%.  But ascribing that , as Coates does, to racialism and revulsion towards a black president, is difficult to do when placed in context with that margin in the previous two non-incumbency elections:

Bush-Gore 2000: 24%
Obama-McCain 2008: 16%
Trump-Clinton 2016:  31%

Comparatively speaking, fear of a black president was thin on the ground when a black man was running for President.  Obama's share of the white male in 08 was easily the highest of any Democratic candidate in this generation. 

There is I think a simpler explanation for Trumps massive margin among white men.  Coates riffs on the alt right's "c*uck" (damn you Jacob) obsession, portraying it as a fear of black male sexuality.  There is something to that, but at its core it is really about fear of *female* sexuality, particularly female sexuality unconstrained by patriarchal control . Similarly, the simpler story in 2016 is not white male voters rebelling against non-candidate Obama, but white male voters turning against actual 2016 candidate HRC.

The more obvious culprit here is misogyny.   

[HVC]

So the shtick was getting stale and it was time for a face turn? I think Trump's presidency is easier to understand when applying wrestling storyline logic. 

He wants to be loved and accepted, something he never got from the the New York elite. If he gets in his head that working with the libs gives him positive coverage he might become the most liberal republican yet . Dude is like a 5 year old.

[Camerus]

My personal favourite overly simplistic reason to explain Trump is still Joe Biden's.