Wednesday, September 9, 2015

The power of Alpha

This shouldn't surprise anyone:
In terms of demographics, Trump’s supporters are a bit older, less educated and earn less than the average Republican. Slightly over half are women. About half are between 45 and 64 years of age, with another 34 percent over 65 years old and less than 2 percent younger than 30. One half of his voters have a high school education or less, compared to 19 percent with a college or post-graduate degree. Slightly over a third of his supporters earn less than $50,000 per year, while 11 percent earn over $100,000 per year. Definitely not country club Republicans, but not terribly unusual either.
Of course, it's more than the Alpha. It's also the security issue. Women are finally beginning to feel threatened by the mass migrations.

15 comments:

rumpole5 said...

He's Alpha? - Who knew? It's interesting that his first wife, who compared Trump's marital relations style to "rape", never-the-less supports his pres. bid 100%. It would be gratifying to have a USA leader who tells the rest of the world, and the new world order types to bend over for a change.

The Hispanic guy who sprays our house mentioned earlier today that he supports Trump. He seemed surprised when I told him that I like Trump too. It seems that some USA Hispanics are listening more carefully than the average left wing "journalist" or politician, and know the difference between legal and illegal.

Anchorman said...

Hey, remember when Trump bashed McCain and all the press "gasped?" No apology. Just pushed on with a different message. I didn't completely agree with him regarding McCain's service, but I like the "no apology" policy. Besides, pissing off McCain's supporters costs him nothing, since his supporters are all establishment types.

Chewed into Megyn Kelly...no apology...moved on.

Chewed into Ramos...no apology...moved on.

Chewed into McCain...no apology...moved on.

And his popularity didn't drop.

I don't harbor illusions that he's right wing. He's masquerading, as far as I measure. But he's putting on a clinic if anyone's watching.

Revelation Means Hope said...

Contrary to most of the cuckservatives' beliefs of how the political world works, Trump's popularity RISES after every incident where he doesn't apologize.

And what the total frickin' idiots in the Repukican establishment haven't realized, because they are either too incredibly stupid to figure it out, or because they really DO want to destroy America, is that a huge number of Hispanic voters (not illegals, but actual legal voters) are supporting him.

Why? Because they also admire alpha, and also have just enough brains to realize that their ignorant illegal barbarian cousins are going to make it extremely difficult for ALL hispanics in the near future, whether legal or illegal.

the bandit said...

Seems like just the alpha to me. Less than 2% of the women under 30. As dvdivx points out, they're not threatened by the vibrants, they're sleeping with them. Most of the female supporters are older and so have more "mature" fantasies regarding Trump instead.

the bandit said...

Oh, I see I jumped in with a false dichotomy. Still, the younger women don't seem to care about security.

Laguna Beach Fogey said...

The era of the Nationalist strongman is upon us.

Terrific said...

I understand Trump because at this time I am one of his cheerleaders - but I am NOT sold. I love what he's saying. I believe where he's coming from. I understand how he was pro-choice, for single-payer, gave money to Democrats, maybe even was a Democrat most of his life. And at this point in time it doesn't matter to me because he's NOT a politician. As far as I can tell, he never cared about politics except when needing to know where to slip the envelope!

But I can also believe that he's at a place in his life where he might really think he can do the country some good. And as I've said elsewhere, Trump is out to make Trump look good and it's possible he believes the best way to make Trump IMMORTAL is to "Make America Great Again."

And if THAT'S true, I trust him to do it! I TRUST his selfish, self-centered EGO to do what's best for this country!

Terrific said...

I understand Trump because at this time I am one of his cheerleaders - but I am NOT sold. I love what he's saying. I believe where he's coming from. I understand how he was pro-choice, for single-payer, gave money to Democrats, maybe even was a Democrat most of his life. And at this point in time it doesn't matter to me because he's NOT a politician. As far as I can tell, he never cared about politics except when needing to know where to slip the envelope!

But I can also believe that he's at a place in his life where he might really think he can do the country some good. And as I've said elsewhere, Trump is out to make Trump look good and it's possible he believes the best way to make Trump IMMORTAL is to "Make America Great Again."

And if THAT'S true, I trust him to do it! I TRUST his selfish, self-centered EGO to do what's best for this country!

Tommy Hass said...

"It would be gratifying to have a USA leader who tells the rest of the world, [...] to bend over"

:eyeroll:

Anonymous said...

Trump sounded great right up until he called Snowden a traitor. It seems part of 'Making America Great Again' includes maintaining the liberty destroying security surveillance state. Now 'Making America Great Again' sounds an aweful lot like 'Making the Trains Run on Time'.

Laguna Beach Fogey said...

There's finally a candidate that looks like me and hails from the same ethnic stock. This is important. I think we may be seeing the rise of White identity politics and European-American ethnonationalism. It's all about Identity.

I don't understand why Americans--and conservatives in particular--seem so fucking hell-bent on voting for people who don't look like them. Conservatives practically cream themselves over people like Carson, Rubio, and Jindal. It's baffling. I attribute it to moral- or status-signalling, but I think there's something more behind it.

Mansizedtarget.com said...

Caring about security and having kids or grandkids and a home and some stability in your life are all intertwined. I think also his "real man" talk is more refreshing to people who have a vague memory of it from their youth, when people like Nixon and Reagan were president, and we didn't have so much political correctness. The young are almost completely brainwashed, they're more used to things the way they are, and their political correctness is drilled in from 5-18. We grew up (I'm 40) with dressing up like Pilgrims and admiring George Washington. They grew up with hearing about how terrible the white man is and admiring St. Martin Luther King and Trayvon Martin. It's a difference.

liberranter said...

Trump knows his audience, which consists mostly of gullible morons whose understanding of issues comes from 30-second sound bites and whose memories are as long as a sand flea's penis on a winter day. He also knows, unlike the simpletons singing his praises, that he doesn't stand a snowball's chance in the Sahara of becoming president. This is all nothing but advertising for The Donald - either for his next big business deal, or a distraction from an impending implosion of an existing enterprise. Anyone paying attention (i.e., anyone other than Trump supporters) will also remember that he has always consistently supported LIBERAL causes in the past. There's no reason to believe the leopard has changed its spots.

All of that said, I must admit that it's a testimony to the sheer repulsiveness of the current crop of Establishment candidates that Trump looks appealing by comparison.

YIH said...

Now the libs and cuckservatives are attacking Trump over his remarks over Fiorina. He has a point though, although what's ugly about her was what she did to Lucent, then the now-defunct Compaq and Hewlett-Packard.
I've heard more than a few stories about former H-P employees singing ''Ding dong the witch is dead!'' when H-P got rid of her.
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SciVo said...

@ liberranter: "He also knows, unlike the simpletons singing his praises, that he doesn't stand a snowball's chance in the Sahara of becoming president."

I love your content-free rhetoric. As it happens, Trump will be President just because the people in the middle -- the ones that swing elections -- respond to strength of personality, and he doesn't care what you think.

I neither know nor care whether he will be a good President, since I can't lose. If he's good things get better, if he's bad we get to burn it all down and replace it.

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