Not every Trump voter is racist or misled. There is an article in The Correspondent that we should pay attention to. Excerpts below
But from a non-western perspective, one that also happens to be my own, the US is far from a developed society – let alone a functioning democracy. The conditions are different, of course, but the US exhibits the same voting behaviour common in so-called Arab democratic dictatorships, Read Rob Wijnberg’s piece ‘Dear news media, stop covering the US as if it’s a democracy where voting for authoritarians is motivated by very specific rationalities and trade-offs
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So, in a democracy where you can’t change the system, and you don’t expect much from that system either, a different rationale comes into play that is so often overlooked by punditry in western countries: you maximise your little stake in it.
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Once we start looking at the US as a flawed democracy that also disenfranchises voters, pushes “change candidates” out of the system early, and is dominated by powerful lobbying industries and astronomical presidential campaign funding requirements, we can get a fuller picture of why people can vote for a politician like Trump in such incredible numbers.
This is a necessary readjustment of perspective, even as Biden takes the reins. Because the Democratic party, and the US as a whole, will fail to keep Trumpian forces at bay if they don’t realise that voting for Trump can actually be a rational decision. There are cold, hard reasons why people voted for Trump again. And they will do so again in the future.
We ignore this only at our own peril. Read it.
