This, despite his mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic and the death of more than 160,000 Americans.
Despite the recession, the double-digit unemployment and the looming economic depression.
Despite widespread social unrest and overwhelming national discontent.
Despite his dismal foreign policy record, notably on China, North Korea, and Iran.
Despite all of that and much more, a majority among white and male voters tell pollsters they will vote for Trump again.
Based on the more conservative interpretations of the countless polls, Trump is leading presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden by 7 to 9 percentage points among white male voters. This is almost as many points as he is trailing Biden among all Americans nationally.
But the mainstream media has been coy in highlighting or discussing the issue. Media outlets have focused on how there is change among, say, white women, white college graduates or white senior citizens, but have hardly tackled the issue of the persistent and consistent support for Trump among whites.
Today white people in the US complain of bias, and even claim to be "under attack".
This, despite the fact that they make up almost three-quarters of the US population, and the majority of both parties.
Despite the fact that all US presidents were white men, except one.
Despite the fact that white men have always been and remain by far the richer, more affluent and more powerful group in the US.
Despite the fact that the majority of all lawmakers, governors, generals, CEOs, and millionaire and billionaires have always been white men.
And despite white men historically acting as perpetrators of violence, discrimination, and harassment against women and minorities.
An astounding 55 percent of white Americans believe white people experience racial discrimination. Some 84 percent of white Republicans reckon the country has already gone too far or far enough in giving Black people equal rights, even though structural racism remains rampant in the US.
And while it seems these and other sentiments have been simmering under the surface, no one has exploited and deepened such sentiments of self-righteous white victimhood as insidiously as Trump.
The above were generously lifted from an Al Jazeera piece written by Marwan Bishara and published on August 09, 2020.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
To be honest, it doesn't matter who wins. Whether whiter-than-white Trump or white-pretending-to-be-less-white Biden prevails in eighty-four days’ time, I daresay that ‘leadership’ in America has been dead for a long time now.
Europe should just move on and become Eurocentric. And US colonies like Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK should learn to survive on their own.
I truly believe the world will be a much better place without the US.





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