WestVirginiaRebel Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 Daily Caller: The stereotype of Donald Trump supporters as angry, drug-addicted losers may be popular with establishment Republican writers, but it doesn’t necessarily reflect reality, according to a fascinating new video by journalist Charlie LeDuff. In an early March article for National Review, writer and theater critic Kevin Williamson wrote a piece about economically depressed, mostly white working class cities around the country which have generated substantial support for Trump’s candidacy. In Williamson’s words, towns such as Garbutt, N.Y. “deserve to die” along with their way of life, because they are worthless hubs of drug addiction, government dependency, and degenerate morality. Williamson’s piece in turn sparked a defense of Trump-backing poor whites in The Week by Michael Brendan Dougherty, who concocted a fictional drug addict in Garbutt named Mike to make his case. Special: Hawking Says Smart Pill is Proven to Double IQ “The conservative movement has next to zero ideas for improving the life of the typical opioid dependent who lives in Garbutt, New York, outside of Rochester. Let’s call him Mike,” Dougherty said. “In truth, the conservative movement has more ideas for making Mike’s life more desperate, like cutting off the Social Security Disability check he’s been shamefacedly receiving. It’s fibromyalgia fraud, probably … If the conservative movement has any advice for Mike, it’s to move out of Garbutt and maybe ‘learn computers.'” Inspired by all this chatter about mythical Mikes from Garbutt, LeDuff of Detroit’s WJBK news station took the novel step of actually visiting the tiny hamlet and looking for a person named Mike to interview for his syndicated news series “The Americans.” ________ Meet the real Mikes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 The stereotype of Donald Trump supporters as angry, drug-addicted losers may be popular with establishment Republican writers, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestVirginiaRebel Posted April 11, 2016 Author Share Posted April 11, 2016 Is that for Trump or from Trump? Also, angry, drug-addicted losers are actually in the Democratic Party, aren't they? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Is that for Trump or from Trump? Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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