In 1980, white people accounted for about 80 percent of the U.S. population.
In 2024, white people account for about 58 percent of the U.S. population.
Trump appeals to white people gripped by demographic hysteria. Especially older white people who grew up when white people represented a much larger share of the population. They fear becoming a minority.
While the Census Bureau says there are still 195 million white people in America and that they are still the majority, the white population actually declined slightly in 2023, and experts believe that they will become a minority sometime between 2040 and 2050.
Every component of the Trump-Republican agenda flows from these demographic fears.
The Trump phenomenon and the surge of right-wing extremism in America was never about economic anxiety, as too many political reporters claimed during the 2016 presidential campaign.
It was, and still is, about race and racism.
They weren’t “going off on a rant”, though. They were responding to something you said and it was a pretty good reply too with a lot of detail and thought put into it. If you didn’t want to discuss the election, you shouldn’t have quoted a sentence about the election. Getting all snide and dismissive after the fact is very strange behaviour on your part.
I quoted about the racism. The election was incidental and I didn’t discuss that part at all, but did discuss the racism.
And now, you’re changing the subject. Is it so hard to stay on subject? What is your objective here? Distraction from the original topic? What are your thoughts on the racism? I really don’t care to hear you blather on about anything else.
I don’t know why you keep saying this. Do you still think I’m someone else you replied to earlier?