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In 1980, white people accounted for about 80 percent of the U.S. population.

In 2024, white people account for about 58 percent of the U.S. population.

Trump appeals to white people gripped by demographic hysteria. Especially older white people who grew up when white people represented a much larger share of the population. They fear becoming a minority.

While the Census Bureau says there are still 195 million white people in America and that they are still the majority, the white population actually declined slightly in 2023, and experts believe that they will become a minority sometime between 2040 and 2050.

Every component of the Trump-Republican agenda flows from these demographic fears.

The Trump phenomenon and the surge of right-wing extremism in America was never about economic anxiety, as too many political reporters claimed during the 2016 presidential campaign.

It was, and still is, about race and racism.

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    2 months ago

    Why are you going off on some rant about how to win the election? What you’re saying is correct about how to approach the election and that’s not the subject of this post or this conversation.

    Trump and the majority of his supporters are a bunch of god-damned racists. Welcome to reality.

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      2 months ago

      Why are you going off on some rant about how to win the election? What you’re saying is correct about how to approach the election and that’s not the subject of this post or this conversation.

      You directly quoted and replied to a sentence referencing Trump’s presidential campaign. It is perfectly reasonable for people to assume you are interested in discussing the upcoming presidential election.

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            2 months ago

            No. Do you always jump in and answer questions for other people without identifying that you’re doing that? I asked millie why they were going off on a rant. Nobody asked you. You’re welcome to participate anyway, but you might want to make it clear that’s what’s going on.

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              2 months ago

              They weren’t “going off on a rant”, though. They were responding to something you said and it was a pretty good reply too with a lot of detail and thought put into it. If you didn’t want to discuss the election, you shouldn’t have quoted a sentence about the election. Getting all snide and dismissive after the fact is very strange behaviour on your part.

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                2 months ago

                I quoted about the racism. The election was incidental and I didn’t discuss that part at all, but did discuss the racism.

                And now, you’re changing the subject. Is it so hard to stay on subject? What is your objective here? Distraction from the original topic? What are your thoughts on the racism? I really don’t care to hear you blather on about anything else.

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                  2 months ago

                  And now, you’re changing the subject.

                  I don’t know why you keep saying this. Do you still think I’m someone else you replied to earlier?

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                    2 months ago

                    You didn’t respond to what I wrote and instead went off on a tangent. Try to stay focused. Try to read for context.

                    What are your thoughts on the racism?