{"id":346571,"date":"2018-02-03T01:50:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T00:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trumps-durable-base-eight-reasons\/"},"modified":"2018-02-03T01:50:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T00:50:36","slug":"trumps-durable-base-eight-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trumps-durable-base-eight-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Durable Base: Eight Reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_99458\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99458\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-4.55.30-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"339\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by kellybdc | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s many critics like to note that he has been struggling with epically low approval ratings \u2013 in <a href=\"http:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/201617\/gallup-daily-trump-job-approval.aspx\">the middle and high 30s for the most part<\/a> \u2013\u00a0 across most of his presidency.\u00a0 That is hardly surprising, given Boss Tweet\u2019s relentlessly un-presidential behavior, which helps make a laughingstock out of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The Insane Clown President\u2019s idiotic and offensive conduct has been so bad that one must wonder how he has managed to retain a durable base of support amongst the 33-39% who regularly tell pollsters that they approve of his job performance. The unshakeable durability of the Trump base seems like evidence in support of candidate Trump\u2019s infamous statement that he could go out onto Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and still not lose any of his core supporters.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the resilience and robustness of Trump\u2019s base all about? It\u2019 reflects a combination of at least eight overlapping and interrelated, mutually reinforcing factors.\u00a0 One is that Trump\u2019s virulent white nationalism resonates with a significant part of the white populace. The Caucasian \u201cheartland\u201d has for many decades been hearing that Black welfare cheats, job-stealing Latino immigrants, and criminal Black and Latino gangbangers have been sucking the nation dry and demoralizing its values and purity with the help of fancy and pampered big city and bi-coastal middle- and upper-class liberals and leftists. It\u2019s nothing new, really&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/02\/02\/trumps-durable-base-eight-reasons\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by kellybdc | CC BY 2.0 Donald Trump\u2019s many critics like to note that he has been struggling with epically low approval ratings \u2013 in the middle and high 30s for the most part \u2013\u00a0 across most of his presidency.\u00a0 That is hardly surprising, given Boss Tweet\u2019s relentlessly un-presidential behavior, which helps make a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}