Trump’s popularity with his base isn’t the result of economic anxiety, as many claimed in 2016. It’s about race and demographics.

TO UNDERSTAND THE rise of Donald Trump, you don’t need to go to a diner in the Midwest or read “Hillbilly Elegy,” J.D. Vance’s memoir.

You just need to know these basic facts:

In 1980, white people accounted for about 80 percent of the U.S. population.

In 2024, white people account for about 58 percent of the U.S. population.

Trump appeals to white people gripped by demographic hysteria. Especially older white people who grew up when white people represented a much larger share of the population. They fear becoming a minority.

  • credo@lemmy.world
    16·
    3 months ago

    Nope. But I think people who don’t have kids should deeply consider why they are sitting on a school board, voting to ban books, etc.

    • jmp242@sopuli.xyz
      41·
      3 months ago

      To clarify here - do you think that people should be forced to leave school boards as soon as their kids graduate? Do they end up eligible again if their kids have grandkids? Is this limited to people with kids going to that specific school? Also, does paying school taxes not make you have some skin in the game?

      And what about just input on the society you live in? It seems to me the solution in your example would be to have younger people run for / contest the school board.

      • Nougat@fedia.io
        21·
        3 months ago

        I want to go on the record on the side of “Yes, people without kids are absolutely capable of caring about education.”

        But I also wanted to offer a correction:

        Is this limited to people with kids going to that specific school?

        School boards are for the school district, which is obviously composed of many elementary schools, junior highs, high schools. Without speaking for every school district in the country, I would expect that school board members would need to be residents of the district.

      • credo@lemmy.world
        11·
        3 months ago

        Did I say people should be forced to leave?

        Here try this: Do you think people from Russia should vote in our elections? If you put any thought at all into your argument, you’ll see in advance that you lose this little debate.