Revenge of the Yahoos
14th November 2016
Jim Goad deconstructs the election.
Much of the media blamed it all on white racism, but that’s the media’s job, isn’t it? Statistically, 58% of whites yanked the lever for Trump. This included 63% of white men and 53% of white women, with the Clinton’s campaign’s attempts at launching an anti-male gender war stumbling as hard as Hillary did outside her van this past September 11. A majority of young whites voted for Trump. And despite the media’s ceaseless attempts to portray all Trump voters as uneducated—I’m still waiting for any mainstream outlet to use the term “non-college-educated black voters”—he was favored by a majority of educated whites.
But it wasn’t strictly a “whitelash,” as chocolate commie cueball Van Jones insisted. Trump performed more poorly among white voters than Mitt Romney did in 2012. And more nonwhites voted for Trump than they did for Romney. Electing Trump didn’t prove America is “racist.” It proved that shouting “RACIST!” no longer works.
November 14th, 2016 at 13:05
At least he recognizes Trump supporters as “yahoos”–though what it is they are avenging isn’t at all clear.
November 15th, 2016 at 07:16
It would be more accurate to say that they are taking revenge for being labelled as ‘yahoos’ by people who don’t know any better.
November 15th, 2016 at 12:12
So identity politics, in your formulation, is okay when it’s self-identified (and self-victimized) “yahoos” taking action, but otherwise not? How selective.
November 15th, 2016 at 18:06
No more selective than the self-styled ‘non-yahoos’, who have been doing for decades what the ‘yahoos’ have finally decided is sauce for the gander. ‘Mommee! Johnny hit me BACK!’ What a bunch of whiners and hypocrites you people are.