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Re:Donald Trump Is Elected President by lordCarbonFiber on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @11:01AM (#12911180)
What does "socially conservative" mean in 2016 if not racist/sexist/homophobic? One of Trump's slogans was "Take America back"; that's not particularly subtle as to from who.

The line gets a bit muddier on the fiscal side. If you're all for cutting programs that disproportionately support the poor and the poor happen to be disproportionately minority is there a racial component? That's worth being aware of.

Re:Donald Trump Is Elected President by dvdcxn on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @12:03PM (#12912001)
> "Take America back"; that's not particularly subtle as to from who.

Depends on the context really. If that was Sander's slogan, you'd immediately assume whom you'd be taking it back was the bankers & corporation.

It's one of those generic slogan that reflects the views of the beholder. Some will assume it means from the immigrants, others the bureaucrats. It's definitely smarter than the damp squibs that Clinton came up with.

Re:Donald Trump Is Elected President by vlunkr on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @11:17AM (#12911356)
Pro-life, opposed to drug legalization, 2nd amendment rights, to name a few. Sorry, but if that's what you think of all conservatives you have as much prejudice as you think they do.
Re:Donald Trump Is Elected President by lordCarbonFiber on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @11:40AM (#12911708)
Pro-life is pretty tightly coupled to the idea women don't have the right to manage their reproductive health-> not very equalist[0]. The drug war was started by Nixon inorder to better control the black and hippie population, so not getting any points there[1].

You're left with gun rights which becomes a question of degree. It's thankfully largely divorced from the issues of sex and race, but pretty tightly coupled to regional culture more than anything else.

The fact that Trump won on the backs of uneducated white men certainly says a lot.

[0] http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2012/10/how-i-l...

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richa...

Re:Donald Trump Is Elected President by dllthomas on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @01:49PM (#12913333)
I definitely don't think of guns as a social issue... is that where it is usually classified? Granted that it doesn't fit "economic" perfectly either.