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HOW RACISM AND ECONOMIC ANXIETY FUEL THE GOP'S WAR ON DEMOCRACY

Democrats need to give Americans the full picture of how Republicans exploit
white fear.
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MAKE NO MISTAKE: DEMOCRACY IS ON THE MIDTERM BALLOT

18:48

Oct. 27, 2022, 10:23 AM UTC
By Hayes Brown, MSNBC Opinion Columnist

As we barrel toward Election Day, Democrats are struggling to figure out what
their overall message to voters should be. Should it be a focus on the economy
and the struggles working-class Americans face? Should more attention be paid to
the ways democracy itself is under threat? Or are they underplaying the concerns
among their base about the at times blatant racism on display from the
Republican Party?

It's easy to see why candidates feel pulled in so many different directions, but
a new analysis from The New York Times has me convinced what the Democrats need
to tell Americans is “all of the above.” All three are intertwined in a way that
has powered the MAGA wing of the GOP, feeding into white voters’ interconnected
fears of racial replacement — as seen in the conspiracies that the likes of Rep.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Fox host Tucker Carlson have endorsed — and
their being further left behind in a shifting economic landscape that will only
worsen should House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., become speaker
next year.




In their analysis, the Times authors looked at the districts represented by the
139 House Republicans who voted against certifying President Joe Biden’s victory
on Jan. 6, 2021, and found that “a shrinking white share of the population is a
hallmark” of their constituencies. “The portion of white residents dropped about
35 percent more over the last three decades in those districts than in territory
represented by other Republicans.”

Their feeling of abandonment is provoking the backlash against democracy itself
that Trump’s election denialism helped galvanize.

Taken alongside the fact that these districts also “lagged behind in income and
education,” you have a recipe for the willingness we’ve seen from residents to
believe the 2020 election was rigged. It’s a case in which these districts’
residents have taken the things they can see — the changing faces of their
neighbors and the lack of economic opportunity — and melded them with former
President Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories to explain the world they live in.

It's not an entirely surprising finding when you consider earlier analyses of
the rioters who attempted to stop the electoral vote count on Jan. 6 in what
boiled down to a race riot. Last year, the Chicago Project on Security and
Threats noted that many of the people who had been charged with storming the
Capitol came from areas that underwent the same demographic shifts The Times is
highlighting: “Counties with the most significant declines in the non-Hispanic
white population are the most likely to produce insurrectionists who now face
charges.”


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Meanwhile, that feeling of abandonment is provoking the backlash against
democracy itself that Trump’s election denialism helped galvanize. If elections
are only set to strengthen the hand of nonwhites, it follows then that elections
themselves must be questioned. And when past disappointments have conditioned
them to lose faith in the system, promises from men who claim they alone can fix
it, like Trump, seem like a better bet than the results elections have brought
them so far.



The idea that Republican voters and politicians base their views on (and feed
off of) white fears is something we're very bad at directly facing as a society.
It’s why the tea party’s origins were framed as a backlash to taxes and Wall
Street bailouts, rather than as a racist backlash to the first Black president.
It’s also why so much of the framing of Trump’s 2016 win looked at “economic
anxiety” among his supporters, overlooking the permission he gave them to
embrace racist positions.

The idea that Republican voters and politicians base their views on (and feed
off of) white fears is something we're very bad at directly facing as a society.

In throwing their lot in with Trump and the election deniers he has spawned,
many of these white Americans are basing their actions on decades of lies that
have actually worsened the daunting economic conditions they face. Since the
Reagan era, Republicans have told voters that social safety net programs — which
will be only more useful as inflation makes essential items more expensive — are
stealing tax dollars from hard-working whites and giving them to indolent Black
and Hispanic Americans. A 2018 study from researchers at two California
universities found that “white Americans are more likely to favor welfare cuts
when they believe that their status is threatened and that minorities are the
main beneficiaries of safety net programs.”

In reality, white Americans “make up the largest share of Medicaid and food
stamp recipients,” as a Washington Post article about the study pointed out.
While elderly Black Americans are more likely to depend on Social Security for
income, they “benefit less overall from this program due to the persistent pay
gap, as well as shorter life spans.” But the difficulty Democrats face in
convincing voters in the districts The Times analyzed that the government
programs they’re championing are designed to help them and minorities, even if
things feel different, is part of what has kept us in this cycle.


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Even now, House Republicans are pledging that should they retake the majority, a
massive cut in federal spending will be the cost for not plunging the world into
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And that pain won’t be blamed on the white men and women who went to Washington
and voted to reduce how much help families in their districts get at the grocery
store every month. It will be aimed at the people whose votes are automatically
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