Read this, please.
https://mondediplo.com/2020/12/02usa
It pulls no punches with brutal honesty.
Trumpism is a part of a global populist revolt against political, economic and cultural elites and has its greatest appeal among those whose lives have been upended by globalisation and de-industrialisation. Rightwing ‘populist’ movements tend to flourish, as John Judis has noted, when real problems have been ignored or downplayed by the major political parties. It was precisely such a failure that made Trumpism possible.
Remarkably, the nation’s poorest Congressional districts, where support for the Republican Party has been rising since 2000, are now far more likely to vote Republican than Democratic, while 44 of the 50 richest districts — and all ten of the richest — are now represented by Democrats. This class inversion in patterns of support for Democrats and Republicans offers fertile soil for a resurgent Trumpism without Donald Trump. For if the Democratic Party does not protect the vulnerable and the left behind, many of them will continue to turn to a Republican Party that provides ready scapegoats — immigrants, African Americans, foreigners, and an all-powerful if ill-defined ‘elite’.
Compared to other capitalist democracies, the United States offers a favourable environment for rightwing populism. The racial appeal of such a movement has deep roots: witness the surprisingly successful third-party campaign of George Wallace in 1968, who famously declared in his inaugural address as governor of Alabama, ‘Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.’ Add powerful anti-immigrant sentiment of the sort seen in many European countries, and a weak welfare state poorly designed to cushion those most vulnerable in economic distress, and you have the elements of enthusiastic mass support for a future Trumpist movement.
Biden will need to differentiate himself not only from an obstructionist Congressional Republican Party led by McConnell, but also from the policies of the Obama administration, which he so loyally served as vice-president. To forestall a resurgence of Trumpism, Biden must act boldly and decisively to show that he is on the side of the many Americans harmed by the neoliberal policies pursued over the last 40 years by Democrats and Republicans alike. This would require a departure from the cautious centrism that has characterised his career — a pivot that drastically changed circumstances, an empowered progressive movement within the Democratic Party and his justified reputation for malleability just might make possible.
I cannot in good conscience begrudge people like this who have been just tossed aside by the system and sneer them off for "racism" and "sexism." I've been to places like Gary, Indiana, which is fertile breeding grounds for this ideology. They deserve better than the horrible shake they've got.
Even if they're exactly as racist and sexist as you think, calling them that does jack all and in fact contributes to the social silencing effect. Plus it's rather high and mighty for you smug little leftists in your ivory towers to act like you've ever supported the common working class when the racism and sexism is what crosses the line for you, despite your own professed history of dislike, or so you claim, toward the system, capitalism, the government, etc, et al. Is it right? No. But you people are so full up your own a****, you'd literally refuse to, for example, ever associate with your lovely little old harmless grandmother who dropped N-bombs on Mr. Obama whenever his name was brought up. Just going to ignore all the other positive traits and focus on that alone? Social vaporware is literally all you have to offer, not real solutions. That and police bigotry.
I think the name of it needs to change, that "Trumpism" will outlive him. It's just making him into too much of a convenient scapegoat. It's another way the elite MSM single out his voters so that they are blindsided yet again by surprise election results. They've learned nothing from 2016, and don't tell me otherwise. Far from getting better, society is getting worse. The removal of Mr. Trump is an illusion things will get better, for to return to the norm effectively means no addressing the larger systematic issues.
I'm fed up with this, this whole danged thing. This is why families are breaking up, just like the civil war days. Riots over the summer, and now violence on Capitol Hill. That's a warning sign, that I don't think is being taken seriously enough, past writing it off as "an attempted coup" by "the rogue outsider." That completely misses the mark and ignores that it could happen again, and probably will under Mr. Biden.