{"id":5975,"date":"2016-10-25T09:04:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T14:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=5975"},"modified":"2016-10-25T09:04:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T14:04:38","slug":"the-selective-sympathies-of-trump-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2016\/10\/25\/the-selective-sympathies-of-trump-supporters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Selective Sympathies of Trump Supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As the election edges ever closer, the question of how support for such a polarizing figure like Donald Trump even became possible is on\u00a0many people’s\u00a0minds.<\/p>\n

An article in <\/span>The New Yorker<\/span><\/a><\/em> examines sociologist\u00a0<\/span>Arlie Russell Hochschild<\/span><\/a>\u2019s new book “Strangers in their Own Land<\/em><\/a>,” for answers to this Trump phenomenon. Hochschild set out to\u00a0understand the emotional root of the Tea Party movement and the Trump euphoria. Hochschild spent five years conducting research in rural parts of Southern Louisiana, where the vast majority of the population are poor, uneducated, and white. \u00a0She found that Tea Party supporters often described American society with a single narrative of “cheaters” and individuals who “do not want to work.”\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em> describes this narrative, below:<\/span><\/p>\n

“The line-cutters were African-Americans, promoted by affirmative action, she writes, but also ‘women, immigrants, refugees, public-sector workers\u2014where will it end? Your money is running through a liberal sympathy sieve you don\u2019t control or agree with.'”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hochschild writes that Trump fuels this perspective,\u00a0shaming “virtually every line-cutting group”\u00a0as people who are just eating away at government handouts, but then failing to mention that blue-collar white men benefit from food stamps and Medicaid.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“‘In this feint’\u2014by making it seem that white people who accept welfare are only taking advantage of what everyone else gets\u2014’Trump solves a white male problem of pride.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the election edges ever closer, the question of how support for such a polarizing figure like Donald Trump even became possible is on\u00a0many people’s\u00a0minds. An article in The New Yorker examines sociologist\u00a0Arlie Russell Hochschild\u2019s new book “Strangers in their Own Land,” for answers to this Trump phenomenon. Hochschild set out to\u00a0understand the emotional root […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13,85,14],"tags":[39112,39110,39115,39111,4145,40352],"class_list":["post-5975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-inequality","category-politics","category-race","tag-culture","tag-inequality","tag-politics","tag-race","tag-tea-party","tag-trump-supporters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5975"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5979,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975\/revisions\/5979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}