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