The Trump Effect and White America

Little did Hillary Clinton know that when she called some Trump supporters a "basket of deplorables" during the 2016 presidential campaign she would be opening up a Pandora's box that has now emboldened those people to embrace themselves as Trump's adorable deplorables. Now if you look up the word deplorable, it means:  shockingly bad in quality...along with disgraceful, shameful, wretched, atrocious.  I'm not sure why anyone in their right mind would want to think of themselves in that manner but perhaps it's because they don't really understand what the word means or they simply don't care because they see Donald Trump as their champion, their savior, so to speak.  These are the people who live in FEAR.

There's a new study out that says white people who fear democracy may benefit marginalized people (like Blacks, Hispanics and other immigrants) would rather give up democracy to keep their white privilege.  This study connects white American intolerance and support for authoritarianism.  Whites, according to the World Values Survey, say they would rather have a military style rule of government than to have people of color or immigrants living next to them or socializing with them in any way. 

The irony of this is the fact that the white population is continuing to decrease as more and more of the races continue to mix.  Meanwhile, the GOP has pigeon-holed itself into being the Party of the angry white male and his "submissive, I do as I'm told" wife.

 George Washington said in his farewell address in 1796 that political parties could allow cunning, ambitious, unprincipled men rise to power and subvert democracy.

Can you say DONALD TRUMP, STEVE BANNON, STEPHEN MILLER?

As Thomas Paine said it back in 1776, "These are the times that try men's souls'"