Social Science: Trump Voters Are Racist, Human Filth

Madison, Wisconsin — Mehdi Hasan has a piece in The Intercept establishing a fact many national Democratic Party leaders wish to avoid.

In Wisconsin and other states where Donald Trump outperformed expectations in the 2016 election, racism was the driving force, accumulating social scientific data shows.

Put another way: Trump voters hate blacks, immigrants and Muslims. Not as obvious as the reader may believe. Few wish to acknowledge this truism.

Notes Hasen:

Other surveys and polls of Trump voters found "a strong relationship between anti-black attitudes and support for Trump"; Trump supporters being 'more likely to describe African Americans as "criminal," "unintelligent," "lazy" and "violent"'; more likely to believe "people of color are taking white jobs"; and a "majority" of them rating blacks "as less evolved than whites." Sorry, but how can any of these prejudices be blamed on free trade or low wages? ...

Always remember: You have to identify the disease before you can begin work on a cure. In the case of support for Donald Trump, the results are in: It isn’t the economy. It’s the racism, stupid.

Hasan's work is spot-on, his piece is a must-read.

Made me think of Trump last August appearing in east-central Wisconsin in the white homeland of West Bend in Washington County, (Mal Contends), (Alcindor, NYT). [Used to drive to West Bend with my mom from Fond du Lac to buy new cooking utensils in the summers. She loved it, never could comprehend why.]

Reported Yamiche Alcindor in the Times last year:

Jack Beck, 65, a retired bricklayer who lives in West Bend, said he planned to vote for Mr. Trump and did not blame him for making a low-key stop in Milwaukee, given the city’s racial tensions.

'Every night in Milwaukee, there is someone being shot, and they make nothing of that until a cop is involved, and then all of a sudden it’s always blamed on the cop,' said Mr. Beck, who added that he hoped West Bend’s black population would not increase. He tied much of the unrest in Milwaukee to his belief that black residents do not want to work hard and instead want to use police killings to get handouts from the government.

Imbeciles like Jack Black propelled Trump to a win in Wisconsin, though the depressed Milwaukee vote, that urban vote, helped as well, courtesy of Republican statewide voter-suppression efforts that transformed Wisconsin election law in six years since 2011

In Wisconsin, a Republican cannot wring more white votes out of the white WOW counties next to Milwaukee County. WOW is an acronym for Waukesha, Ozaukee and Washington counties or White-on-White as we say at Mal Contends, (New Republic), (Jackson, Boston Globe).

Trump carried Washington County by 30,875 votes in 2016. In 2012, Romney won Washington County by 31,573 votes.

But if West Bend's Jack Black and his ilk had their way a Trump victory is not enough, we'd segregate blacks and then lock 'em up. Oh, that's right, we already do that.

Donald Trump Whitesplains Milwaukee and Race to White Cheers

Visit West Bend, Wisconsin; decent, wholesome white
people away from the unpleasantness of Milwaukee

Traveling to West Bend, (White), Wisconsin for Some Home Cooking

- Audience member, Jack Beck of West Bend, said he hoped West Bend’s black population would not increase -

The spectacle of Scott Walker joining Donald Trump in Washington County Wisconsin to preach law and order to a white audience is cause for ridicule and if you watched the talk, a less-than-restful sleep.

"Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump went to the suburbs Tuesday night to talk about America's inner cities, court African-American voters and lay out a plan to restore law and order in the country. 'I'm asking for the vote of every African-American citizen struggling in our country today who wants a different and much better future,'" Trump said in West Bend last night, (Glauber, Herzog and Schwarz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) .

Wisconsin Republicans, after gerrymandering the state legislative districts, have achieved electoral success the last five years through naked appeals to white resentment against blacks, and what's with all these brown-skinned faces now-a-days, don't we have enough of them too?

Trump's downward political trajectory cannot be altered though, and with Scott Walker Trump's awkward posturing on social justice and race is as credible as Walker's commitment to public education and Trump's knowledge of public policy. Republicans take about 69 percent of the vote in Washington County in statewide elections and the turn-out-the-white-racist vote can't get much better, (Wisconsin Elections Commission).

Trump's address came last night after 9:00 P.M. local time, about a hour and half late, but Trump's law-and-order exhortations telecast on CNN and MSNBC appeared to go over well with the 2,000 assembled white folk, (Alcindor, NYT).

"Trump declined to hold a public event in Milwaukee, where 40 percent of residents are black, and instead decided to speak here, where 95 percent of residents are white and where many had said they hoped Mr. Trump’s rally would be a chance to celebrate the police," writes the Times' Alcindor.

Alcindor offers a quote from Jack Beck, white and proud of it from West Bend, Wisconsin:

Jack Beck, 65, a retired bricklayer who lives in West Bend, said he planned to vote for Mr. Trump and did not blame him for making a low-key stop in Milwaukee, given the city’s racial tensions.

'Every night in Milwaukee, there is someone being shot, and they make nothing of that until a cop is involved, and then all of a sudden it’s always blamed on the cop,' said Mr. Beck, who added that he hoped West Bend’s black population would not increase. He tied much of the unrest in Milwaukee to his belief that black residents do not want to work hard and instead want to use police killings to get handouts from the government.

Jack Becks are everywhere in Wisconsin.

Blacks, their kind is mostly in Milwaukee and Dane County, but you know "they" breed and "they" can move. And "they" want to vote without knowing nothing, farking arseholes.

On Racism

A New York Times/CBS News poll conducted last July asked: 'Have you ever felt you were stopped by the police just because of your race or ethnic background?' Sixty-six percent of black men said yes. Only 9 percent of white men said the same.
- Charles M. Blow

This reality is incomprehensible for the GOP in Wisconsin as represented by Mike Nichols and virtually the entire GOP delegation in the state legislature who strenuously objected to even collecting data on police pull-overs by race.

Mike Nichols Is Clueless on Racial Profiling

Update: See also Threat and Humiliation: Racial Profiling ... , Amnesty International ... Wisconsin's protection from racial profiling: "None".

Rightwing columnist Mike Nichols has made it clear: There is no racial profiling in Wisconsin and certainly not in Milwaukee suburbs.

Collecting data that might support or disconfirm this conclusion is a waste of time.

Nichols is shocked, shocked by Pedro Colón's (D-Milwaukee) "startling accusations" that dark-haired, dark-skinned people are pulled over while driving with dark hair and dark skin.

You might think Colón and Rep. Tamara Grigsby's (D-Milwaukee) (pictured above) defense of a new requirement approved by the Joint Finance Committee mandating police tracking of the race of the people they pull over is a no-brainer.

But not to Nichols, a Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel columnist, who can't be troubled with innocent people being persecuted. [See Bill Christofferson's Should we admire prosecutor who sees crime where there is none in which Nichols defends the prosecution of the innocent Georgia Thompson. See also The proven-innocent Georgia Thompson and Biskupic tried to 'squeeze' Georgia Thompson for additional background on the prosecution.]

Writes Nichols at the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute (WPRI):

I think this is going to be interesting because it sounds like Pedro Colón doesn’t just have one name [of a minority being pulled over], he has lots of them. After all, he says, 'all the guys' complain. Everyone knows what’s going on. That’s 'just the way it is.'

In reality land every dark-skinned, dark-haired person who I know takes it as a fact of life that police pull you over if you're dark-skinned and dark-haired in a white community. It's a humiliating and abusive experience that's painful to talk about.

How far removed from reality is Nichols that he doesn't know this? That he smirks and repeatedly ridicules the notion in his column?

But a rigorous empirical investigation is called for, i.e. collecting data. As Nichols demonstrates many lily-white Republicans are clueless that racial profiling actually occurs.

Nichols demands names and data. But data is exactly what Colón and Grigsby are mandating. So what is Nichols' objection with collecting data?

Noting the race of the person next to the sex police field report on a statewide basis is not a hardship for anyone who cares about defeating racism.

You just have to wonder how someone like Nichols can be so isolated to what is common knowledge in minority cultures and progressives fighting racism. Is this guy really that dumb?

And what is he and GOP afraid of and whom are they are protecting? I'll stand with the darkies.