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Hidden Brain
It presented the idea that immigration is a key factor in white voters shifting towards the Republican Party, suggesting that anxieties and perceptions of threat contribute to this trend.
The issue of immigration is one of the main factors that's driving white voters away from the Democratic Party.
— Episode: Voting With Your Middle Finger
Episode: Voting With Your Middle Finger
It presented the idea that immigration is a key factor in white voters shifting towards the Republican Party, suggesting that anxieties and perceptions of threat contribute to this trend.
The issue of immigration is one of the main factors that's driving white voters away from the Democratic Party.
But I think also Republicans willingly took on that strategy and are using it to their advantage, clearly.
And so you have eight years of the presidency of the first African American president in this country, coupled with the specific campaign message of immigration, all together tying in a lot of that racial resentment that happened in that past eight years, I think just is what galvanized his campaign and his presidency.
I think what pundits missed is that Trump isn't trying to attract all voters across the United States. He knew exactly what demographic and what base he was speaking to.
Race, as we all know, is such a fundamental cleavage in our society.