New Poll: Birthers and Bigots Fill Trump Supporters’ Ranks
Those noisy, rabid bands of Donald Trump crowds feel pressed to let you know that they aren’t racist. Far from it, they’ll attempt to convince you. Conservative pundits, some embarrassed, point to voters disaffected by big government, the lingering recession and political elites. “White power” chants at the Donald rally? Naw, man, we were just overwhelmed by the bright, white lights of the football stadium. Urinating on a homeless Latino man after beating him to a pulp? Team Trump shrugs and blames it on “passion,” as if supporters had suddenly caught some old-time snake handler’s religion.
But fresh data (pdf) from Public Policy Polling confirms what we suspected all along, despite the delusional denial of the Trump rank and file: Love for “the Donald” is about much more than the flamboyant business mogul’s uncooperative hair. What’s driving Trump’s rise in the polls, PPP suggests, is a creepy racist edge grown from two terms of persistent obsession with the black president’s birthplace and a redneck-blooded aversion to foreigners. read story
Birtherism never took a nap. In fact, according to PPP