Where the violence comes from

Posted in Daniel Serwer - March 12, 2016 - 0 Comment

Rachel Maddow last night gave an entirely one-sided, and I think correct, account of why we are seeing violence at Trump rallies:

It’s got to be a great nation. It will survive even this.

This list of judicial appointments by administration is worth a gander too, in case you want to know what makes Trump and his supporters think America is no longer great:

Judges

 

Just in case you have forgotten who Trump’s supporters are:

A correlation of 1 means the variable is a perfect indicator of Trump support.
Variable Correlation
White, no high school diploma
 0.61
“Americans”
Percent reporting ancestry as “American” on the census
 0.57
Mobile homes
Percent living in a mobile home
 0.54
“Old economy” jobs
Includes agriculture, construction, manufacturing, trade
 0.50
History of voting for segregationists
Support for George Wallace (1968)
 0.47
Labor participation rate
 –0.43
Born in United States
 0.43
Evangelical Christians
 0.42
History of voting for liberal Republicans
Support for John B. Anderson (1980)
 –0.42
White Anglo-Saxon Protestants
Whites with European non-Catholic ancestry
 –0.42
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