It is easier by far to blame the society around you than to accept your own shortcomings and then to address them. This way of thinking is what many lower class Americans have adopted in order to rationalize their unemployment or lack of education, which in turn creates a scapegoat that Donald Trump has used throughout his whole campaign. David Frum, in his article “Is it 1968?” comments exactly on this by noting how Trump 's continuous attacks on the structure of the United States simply feed many lower class white Americans exactly what they want to hear. Trump abolishes any responsibility that these Americans hold towards their economic or social status by claiming that the country itself is broken, not the people. Frum expresses his concerns
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A similar discrimination, is what many lower class white Americans believe that they are facing nowadays. Frum notes on the apparent discrimination that these Americans claim to have as the majority of Trump supporters do indeed support this notion. Although there are definitely huge racial issues going on in the US during 2016 and recent years, these issues do not necessarily pertain to white people, the main issue at hand is police brutality towards colored people. This is an issue of much concern, especially in this upcoming election, however Frum notes that Trump believes one of the movements trying to fix the issue of police brutality, Black Lives Matter, has been “execut[ing] police.” This blatant disregard towards a huge issue the US is facing, is exactly one of the reasons why 1968, despite its severe disorder, was still a better Republican political situation than what we have now. The leading candidate for the republican party is a person who is running on the basis of America being broken, whereas in 1968 Nixon was able to address issues the US had while also improving them. Frum talks about how Nixon made laws to help civil rights, while remaining true to his conservatism. This is exactly what a Republican should seek to accomplish, however Trump goes out of his way to deliberately insult the country and simply say that what it is doing is wrong. If Trump is not able to find any notion of pride in his own home country, the country which has provided him with all his economic flourish, chances are that he will not even be willing support the people that are helping him in his presidential
A similar discrimination, is what many lower class white Americans believe that they are facing nowadays. Frum notes on the apparent discrimination that these Americans claim to have as the majority of Trump supporters do indeed support this notion. Although there are definitely huge racial issues going on in the US during 2016 and recent years, these issues do not necessarily pertain to white people, the main issue at hand is police brutality towards colored people. This is an issue of much concern, especially in this upcoming election, however Frum notes that Trump believes one of the movements trying to fix the issue of police brutality, Black Lives Matter, has been “execut[ing] police.” This blatant disregard towards a huge issue the US is facing, is exactly one of the reasons why 1968, despite its severe disorder, was still a better Republican political situation than what we have now. The leading candidate for the republican party is a person who is running on the basis of America being broken, whereas in 1968 Nixon was able to address issues the US had while also improving them. Frum talks about how Nixon made laws to help civil rights, while remaining true to his conservatism. This is exactly what a Republican should seek to accomplish, however Trump goes out of his way to deliberately insult the country and simply say that what it is doing is wrong. If Trump is not able to find any notion of pride in his own home country, the country which has provided him with all his economic flourish, chances are that he will not even be willing support the people that are helping him in his presidential