Katie Couric is still around and still some kind of media personality, although I can’t name any news/TV credits for her these days. It’s been a while since she’s had a job on TV or streaming, which basically means she’s semi-retired. For some reason, Couric decided to go on Bill Maher’s dumb new pod, Club Random. Maher has become such a redpilled Islamophobic bigoted idiot, I don’t know how sensible people can even stand talking to him. In any case, Couric went on his show and she ended up looking reasonable and intelligent compared to Maher. A broken clock, etc, but she actually had a pretty astute observation on what drives Donald Trump’s MAGA cult supporters. This is what she said, which has made the MAGA cult cry:
“It has never been such a stark divide. I feel like, to your point, Bill, that socioeconomic disparities are a lot, and class resentment is a lot, and anti-intellectualism and elitism is what is driving many of these anti-establishment, which are Trump voters, the anti-establishment voters.
“I think that is a huge problem that we have to address. Globalization and the transition from an industrial to a technological society. I don’t know if you’ve ever been jealous of what someone else has or resentful. It is such a corroding and bitter, almost vile feeling. I think that when people who are really struggling see people who have everything and are on top of that looking down on them. It is just a recipe for such anger and resentment and grievance.
Couric also pushed back on Maher’s nonsense about how Trump is “killing it” during his Nazi speeches and townhalls, saying: “He’s not a stand-up comedian.” Maher continued to defend Trump voters and try to understand why they are the way they are and once again, Couric came across as pretty reasonable.
Now, all that being said, Couric falls into the same media-driven trope that Trump “appeals” to the working class or poor people or solely low-information voters. While Trump has plenty of dumb supporters and plenty of low-income supporters, he also has educated and wealthy people supporting him too. That’s what Couric means about the bitterness shared across the MAGA spectrum though – these people are mean, angry, hateful and resentful. That’s what unites them behind this f–king loser. Trump is their pathetic loser North Star.
Katie Couric thinks Trump voters don’t support globalism because they are jealous. pic.twitter.com/YcD18mBfgn
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well, I hope she has security
Trump supporters are rejecting a multi racial democracy. Their hate, not jealousy, is what centers their rabid discontent.
I’m a rideshare driver and I drive intelligent rich people all the time. Many of them are Republicans and Trump voters.
It’s not about economics (Dems have stronger economies). It’s not about intelligence (plenty of smart people vote against their own interests). It’s about the hate. The Republican/Trump voters vote that way because they are filled with hate. Period.
I appreciate your take on this. I imagine you get riders of all kinds, so you have a broader sample size than just the people you typically hang out with.
Yeah, I was talking about this with a friend the other day. Trump made it OK to hate again, right out in the open, out loud. It’s so awful. I truly hope we can turn this around. I’m glad he’s got these court trials, I’m glad there’ve been other trials & convictions of his hateful followers. I’m sure they all feel persecuted, but still. Consequences for your actions, and all that. Don’t they espouse that sentiment? Until it comes to themselves, of course.
With anything with Trump and his supporters, I stay permanently confused. Who supports this vile f*cking man?? Why?! My friend group and I are millennials with boomer parents and to the article’s point, they have all turned into angry, bitter and resentful Trump supporters. These are formerly hardworking, kind and loving people who rode the 90s golden era of prosperity and were in every sense of the former meaning of the word, patriotic for their country, espousing its freedoms for all. But now they support this grifting draft dodging orange criminal who spouts fascist and nazi propaganda and openly welcome it!!!!! I’ll never understand. The rifts it has caused in my family are deep.
It was a lot easier espousing “freedom for all” when white people ran everything and people of color were seldom seen and rarely heard.
Sorry but the 90s were not like the pre-1950s. Things were changing for the better, no matter how slowly or incrementally.
I am as befuddled by my fellow Boomers as BonnieT is. How did this happen? Were these friends of mine always like this & I just didn’t know, or did they change? When did they lose their critical thinking skills? We were in high school during the Watergate Era. How did we go from not trusting the government to yes, please, Donald, tell me what to think & yes, please, Donald, take away my freedoms while you’re money-laundering for your Russian & Chinese oligarch friends.
You must have lived through a different nineties decade than I did. It was better than the fifties only because the civil rights movement had changed laws and made outright discrimination much harder. But, in 1992, a southern good ole’ boy Democrat could only get elected president by reassuring whites he was “a different kind of Democrat” implying he wouldn’t make a stink about civil rights. He actually publicly lectured a Black woman (Sister Souljah) not to be racist towards whites. In 1994, congress was won by Republicans, partly in reaction to white voters’ perception that the new president wasn’t such a different kind of Democrat after all. No Democrat has won the white vote since, but fortunately, the white vote share of the electorate is getting smaller each election, another fact which freaks out many whites and leads to things like the great replacement conspiracy theory.
So well written, Bonniet. They’re supposedly so patriotic, but are cheering on authoritarianism and parroting Russian propaganda? It’s crazy.
Radicalization.
Thats what it is. And we’re in an epidemic.
Back in the 20-teens when we were fighting ISIS, we prollly thought the radicalization of the youth in that part of the world and the “few” from other parts who joined them, were touched in the head somehow and prone to that extreme form of influence; that it was an aspect of their humanity that was beyond our understanding.
But radicalization is taking place within populations in literally every country…….there are folks who you wouldnt think would be influenced by a youtuber into hating someone theyve never seen and dont know. But its happening. And Youtube is rewarding them……..rewarding the followers by feeding them, via the algorithm, more and more of the fomenting stuff; and the youtubers by offering them the incentive of big bucks for them to carry on or become even more extreme with their content.
And so radicalization of the already disenchanted, plus disinformation, misinformation, the hate-for-profit money-motive provided by these platforms, millennials and boomers who feel that theyll never be able to provide themselves with a decent standard of living in 21st century economies, etc…….are all combining into a perfect storm.
And its ripe for the old forms of annihilation-style politics (authoritarianism, nazism, fascism, genocide) plus oligarchy on a global scale, to flourish.
Thats my take anyway.
Yep. “Radicalized online” is the main reason for some of our (USA) most notorious mass shootings. The shooters leave *plenty* of evidence behind for their motivations, but the media keeps reporting this as if they are isolated, disturbed individuals.
One woman’s story on Amazon Prime: The Brainwashing of My Dad.
Fox News plays a huge role in the radicalization of the whites. And while some might have gotten screwed over with globalization, plenty more are doing fine financially and just don’t like that white supremacy is not what it was during the Reagan era.
Orange man says the racist and sexist stuff out loud and that’s why they like him. It’s not because of policies because he doesn’t have any except how to make himself more money.
It’s not just resentment in general. It’s racial resentment in particular that drives so many Trump supporters. Not that long ago, white people, especially white men, ran everything and were centered in everything that happened in this country. When Trumpers mock and deride DEI programs and demand they be ended, it’s very telling. People who look different from them are now far more visible in all spaces than they were just twenty years ago. Of course, minority races still have a very long way to go in this country to achieve true equality, but to a Trump supporter, they have already come too far. When they talk about how America isn’t great anymore and needs to go back to make America “great again”, they mean they want to make white people the bosses again and Black and Brown people should go back to being invisible. And anyone who advocates for social justice and inclusion isn’t just “woke”. They are the literal enemy.
She’s right and I’ll add, many people support Trump out of spite. He’s the candidate of white grievance politics because white Americans are the most entitled people on the planet and they see any minute gains for Black people in particular, as something being taken from them and undeserving. Also, Trump has more middle class supporters and rich supporters than poor ones. Basically people support the guy for one of five reasons or a combination:
1. White grievance / Race, Xenophobia, Anti-Immigration, etc. Also includes the nostalgia folks, the anti globalist, etc.
2. Economics / Tax cuts for the rich
3. Simple spite because he’s convinced people he’s anti establishment and also because they find folks in the left so obnoxious and unlikeable
4. Abortion / he has pretended to be pro life very well and packed the courts with incompetent conservative yahoos
5. Party allegiance / some people just won’t break from their identity as Republicans – it’s how so many incompetent yahoos get elected; especially across the South, Midwest and the Plains states
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