Not long ago I had a revealing conversation about diversity with some co-workers who are the epitome of suburban life. They were self-congratulatory about their welcoming attitude to different races, ethnicities, nationalities and so forth, so long as their fellow suburbanites were “families just like us, who want the same things we all want.” LGBT, maybe.
In other words, as long as you’re well off, mow your lawn and buy in to our shared materialist ethic, sure you can live here.
This is supposed to win back suburban educated white women. It is not going to work.
The “suburban lifestyle dream.” Trump is the Alec Baldwin character in Glengarry Glen Ross crossed with a country-club racist. He thinks millions of suburbanites sit on their backyard patios grumbling to each other about the possibility that some low-income people might live nearby. Pretty far down the list of worries. Do I and my adult kids have adequate health care? Will I be able to afford to retire? Can I pay off my mortgage before my 75th birthday? Will the earth be inhabitable for my grandchildren? Will Trump completely ruin the country?
People are dying by the thousands and the economy is in the tank because Trump is an incompetent, deranged narcissist. That he thinks suburbanites, beyond his own rabid racist base, are super concerned that the government might give someone a little hand up just shows how deeply out of touch he is. Hell, I’m a suburbanite. I could use a hand up!
When gated communities started to become more prevalent, I admit I didn’t get it at first.
I get it now.
LOL!
Perfect epitaph for Trump’s tombstone.
I went to a party like that once. Six affluent suburban couples, and it was like they were cloned. It was eerie. I can’t deal with people like that. They can’t deal with me either, so it’s actually a pretty good arrangement.
Off the top of my head, the only thing Trump could do to get any approval at all from suburban educated white women would be to jump into a volcano. Women of that type that I know go into snarling rages at the mention of his name. Being a worse and worse racist is not going to help. I think the idea that some people are decent and want to get along with everyone is literally beyond his ken.
Trump’s racial foghorn…
In St. Louis County if you live west of 270 then it’s hard to find fast food workers, or to even open a restaurant because the buses don’t run out there anymore, and teenagers don’t work fast food. Living inside 270 the communities are older and more diverse, so we have restaurants and fast food places.
To paraphrase Frank Burns, there’s nothing wrong with individuality as long as we all do the same thing.
I am willing to give Trump 2016 voters a mulligan for just being gullible, misogynistic, and, well, stupid.
Trump 2020 voters are criminally complicit and inherently evil.
Uh…geek alert?
In other news of elected officials failing badly at their sworn duty…
They sure get mad when you ask them not to murder black people. But of course it’s always hard when you’re trying to rescind a job perk people were used to, like free coffee or your birthday off.
In other interesting news, look at Trump’s right leg here.
I know, I thought some of us older folks would know what it was about.
Why doesn’t this article quite the first part of Trump’s two-part tweet? The article makes literally half the amount of sense when you quote only half of Trump’s statement. The full statement is even more damning. Here it is:
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`I am happy to
— Donald J.
inform all of the people living their Suburban Lifestyle Dream that you
will no longer be bothered or financially hurt by having low income
housing built in your neighborhood…
Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July
29, 2020
`
`…Your housing
— Donald
prices will go up based on the market, and crime will go down. I have
rescinded the Obama-Biden AFFH Rule. Enjoy!
J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July
29, 2020
The article even uses the phrase “Suburban Lifestyle Dream” without making it clear that it comes from Trump. Maybe I’m just nitpicking, but the amount of shoddy writing on TPM seems to have increased of late.
