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Why a Thinking Person Might Support Donald Trump

Friday, March 9, 2018 19:03

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New York Times reporter Scott Shane suggested I submit an op-ed to the Times trying to explain why a thinking person might support Donald Trump. The Times did not publish it. Here it is.

Of course, no thinking person should support any person’s entirety. And I can’t imagine a thinking person supporting Trump’s shoot-from-the-hip style, his protectionist trade policies, his having demeaned women, his hubris in not sequestering his conflict-laden assets, nor his carelessness if not collusion in dealing with Russia. (Nor of course, is it imaginable that someone would vote for Hillary Clinton, who used a hammer and “bleaching” software to destroy emails that could have been used as evidence to prove she tried to subvert the presidential election so she could be president.

But many people who voted for Trump, including the 52% of white women who did, thereby shunning the would-be first women president, should not be dismissed as mere ignorant Hillary-labeled “Deplorables” from fly-over states.

One reason people support Trump is because they recognize that the Neville-Chamberlain-like appeasement mindset of peaceniks like Obama and John Kerry merely embolden enemies. Tough guys like Kim Jong Il don’t respond well to nicey-nicey kumbaya. They’ll only capitulate if they’re afraid the enemy will destroy them. And Kim Jong Il’s sudden willingness to discuss dismantling its nuclear arsenal supports the wisdom of such Trump supporters.

Some support for Trump also derives from the belief that he was more likely than Clinton to make policy and allocate resources based on merit, not on redistributing from already struggling “Deplorables” to other people merely because they were a woman or minority—the infamous identity politics. Many Trump voters believed that Hillary, like many liberal Democrats, make policy based on the assumption that white male accomplishment is significantly unearned, hence the now common term “white privilege” and “white male privilege.” Indeed, that view is widely promulgated by society’s core mind-molders: the colleges and the media, the Times, CNN, PBS, ABC, CBS, NBC, LA Times, Washington Post, Atlantic, TIME, etc. Indeed, a new Pew study finds that Americans rank its media dead last among 38 nations in covering political issues fairly. Thus the media, with little questioning, accepted the wisdom of the Clintonian liberal belief that additional redistribution by race and gender. That was a core difference between Trump and Clinton.

The bias perceived by many Trump voters goes well beyond the news media. For example, consider the 2018 Oscar-nominated movies. Nearly all venerate a Have-Not triumphing over an evil Have. To wit, the winner for best picture, The Shape of Things, is about a mute, Latina cleaner who topples a team of white male scientists. In the other most Oscar-honored movie, Three Billboards, the requisite spunky woman brings down the white male police chief. And the media starts its indoctrination early. All ten of the top 10 all-time box office children’s movies have an admirable Have-Not felling an evil Have, usually royalty so the Have acquired the wealth by primogeniture, not by earning it. Even commercials have fallen prey. Note how much more often a wise, spunky woman or minority shows up an inferior white male than vice-versa. Minorities have long insisted that role-models matter. Well, for decades now, the media has disproportionately portrayed white males as inferior. Imagine your son seeing portrayal after portrayal of his race and gender as inferior. And alas, it’s having the predictable effect. When I started as a career counselor three decades ago, my male and female clients were equally optimistic about their future. Today, disproportionately, the females feel the world is their oyster and the males are disproportionately despondent or angry—and not graduating from college. Today, the ratio is 60/40, the reverse of just a few decades ago. Voting for Trump may have been perceived in part as a demonstration of voters’ ability to not succumb to the media’s bias.

Most of the aforementioned white women view their white male husbands, adult children, and other family members not as inferior human beings but as often better and more contributory people than the beneficiaries of the largesse their tax dollars pay for. Some Trump voters may also have been offended by the unfairness to themselves or family members and to society of liberal laws and policies, for example, reverse discrimination in college admission, graduate school admission, hiring and promotion.

Trump ran on controlling illegal immigration. That appealed to many Trump voters who felt Hillary and liberal Democrats were unwise in rewarding illegals by not enforcing immigration laws and worse, by making taxpayers pay for a panoply of serviced, and “Deplorables” pay the most painful share of taxes. Not only are illegals now entitled to free public education at taxpayer expense, because their needs are different, notably their poor English skills, yet most schools mainstream “English language learners,” the level of instruction for taxpayers’ children declines. Also, the taxpayer is now often forced to pay for illegals’ subsidized housing, transportation, health care, food stamps, etc. Particularly irksome to some Trump voters, because of affirmative action targets, a legal resident is less likely to get into a prestigious public university, for example, my alma mater Berkeley, than is an illegal immigrant, so-called “dreamer” with a worse high school record. Further, even if admitted, an out-of-state legal resident ends up paying the exorbitant out-of-state tuition while the illegal immigrant pays the taxpayer-subsidized in-state tuition and may even get one of the many scholarships aimed at minorities.

More broadly, many Trump voters see little personal benefit from their taxes. Disproportionately, schools’ efforts focus on the very poor and lowest achievers. Too, liberals fight to avoid building new roads, forcing the already harried working-class to give up more time from their already overburdened schedules to sitting in traffic, or, in many locales, enduring even longer commutes using mass transit. The working class is less likely than the poor to be among the 47% of who receive taxpayer-paid cash and services. Many Trump voters saw such policies as unfair not only to themselves but as a broader injustice and a formula for hurting America, likely to engender sloth or the bite-the-hand-that-feeds-you syndrome. They viewed Clinton and other liberal Democrats as standardbearers for such policies.

Particularly galling to many Trump voters was the rushing to judgment, the snubbing of the innocent-until-proven-guilty pillar of American society, by minorities who burned down their cities of Ferguson and Baltimore only to learn later that the mixed-race juries found the police officers not guilty. Yet few of the arsonists received significant jail time. Rather, liberal Democrats rewarded the cities with yet more millions of tax dollars for everything from midnight basketball to small business incentives for minority-owned businesses.

Speaking of small business, ever increasing and more labyrinthine regulations, taxes, and fees are an intimidating, often insurmountable challenge for the typical working or middle-class person who wants to start and run a small business legally. And with jobs for the middle-class hollowing out, self-employment is seen as a last hope, and many Trump voters felt that was a more realizable hope with Trump as president, who ran on reducing regulations and taxes.

When Hillary and liberal Democrats frequently use terms such as “inclusion,” “diversity” and “the community,” many Trump supporters perceive that as code for wresting yet more money from them to give to others they perceived as, on average, less deserving. When they hear Hillary and other liberal Democrats try to blame the racial achievement gap on white privilege, the legacy of slavery, and institutional racism, etc., many Trump may think, “Slavery ended more than 150 years ago, and other people of color, equally distinctive—Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Indians, plus the Holocaust survivors have done better in just one generation without all the tax dollars. Some may even think that even in countries in which slavery didn’t exist and that weren’t colonized or have been independent for a half century or more, majority Black or not, Blacks still are at the bottom of most or all of those countries’ socioeconomic ladder and at the top of the crime ladder. Meanwhile the U.S. black vs white vs Asian achievement gap remains essentially as wide as ever despite the $22 trillion of tax dollars spent trying to close it, starting with President Johnson’s Great Society.

The extent to which Trump voters were correct about all these is subject to debate, but it seems unfair to brush away the 62,979,879 people who voted for him as merely ignorant, redneck, racist, sexist yahoos who don’t understand externalities.

Many Trump voters believed and, despite the nonstop media assault on Trump, still believe that their lives are likely to be better under Trump policies if not his personality. Many also believe that America as a whole is better when its foundational decision-making principle is not redistribution but merit. I believe that too.

Do you think the New York Times should have rejected this op-ed?

I read a video of this on YouTube.

Source: http://martynemko.blogspot.com/2018/03/why-thinking-person-might-support.html

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