Working-class Americans have voted with a mixture of fatalist resignation and up-yours defiance for an economic remedy likely to leave them worse off.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.It was a Saturday night in Holly Beach, Louisiana, and the young woman had clearly had a gutful. While we waited for a ferry to cross a bayou where it empties into the bath-warm waters of the gulf, she stood on the sun-weathered dock and between swigs of malt liquor, kept repeating a salty idiom.“Two tears in a bucket,” she said. “Two tears in a bucket and f..k it.
This doesn’t mean America voted for Trump because he is a sleaze – although some of his more repellant traits lit up dark corners of the manosphere – or that character no longer matters in politics. As Democrats often grumbled during a frustrating campaign, the allowance America makes for Trump does not carry over to other political figures. Instead, it appears any judgement on Trump was itself trumped by something more fundamental.
While it is easier to ask questions than provide answers in the bitter aftermath of an electoral loss, an exit poll conducted by NBC news in 10 states suggests Sanders is posing the right ones. Sara James, a former New York-based NBC newsreader and correspondent who lives in Melbourne, says the oft-repeated adage of Bill Clinton’s adviser James Carville that “it’s the economy, stupid,” has never rung more true. “We have seen this again and again,” she says. “If people are hurting, if they are struggling to pay their bills and if they feel, like Americans did, that the country is going in the wrong direction and they are worse off than they were four years ago, they vote for change.
The deeper you dig into the numbers, the more troubling the picture is for the Democratic establishment.Six out of 10 white men voted Republican but so did a majority of white women. Latino men broke 55-43 for Trump. The majority of people under the age of 30 voted Democrat but far fewer than normally do. If your family earned under $US100,000 you were more likely than not to vote Trump. If your family earned over $US100,000, you leant towards Harris.
“The real winners out of Trump’s economic agenda are going to be the tech billionaires who backed him and other rich people who will benefit from his tax cuts and won’t be hurt by his higher tariffs, because rich folks don’t buy cheap stuff from China.
“People like the fact that when Trump says he will do something, he does it. The problem is that when he does what he says he is going to do, the consequences are very different to what he says the consequences will be.”Lowy Institute director Michael Fullilove, an expert on US foreign policy, says the re-election of Trump, with his promised shift towards economic protectionism and political isolation, will be discombobulating for Australians.
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