SOC 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Sleep Deprivation, Neoliberalism, Scapegoating
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They have mapped his strong support areas with racist google searches. Also attracts white working-class men (their life expectancy is declining because their death rate is increasing because of alcoholism, drug overdoses and suicide. Because they are among the people suffering most from neoliberal globalization) These guys who experience a lot of anger and fear. Dt is scapegoating saying their problem is the mexicans, chinese, racist scape- goating. Really easy for these guys to cling on to. Saying there is a problem with free trade agreements. So now he is in favor of higher minimum wage when he was originally against it because he realizes he has a working class base. Donald trump is providing simple solutions to their economic situations racist, hate-monger- ing. They can all potentially be legal up until torture. But there is even a move towards legalizing torture. To the police, all of these people are potential terrorists.
