THE New York Magazine chose for its January 27 coverage a photo representing young conservatives pro-Trump under the title “The table of cruel children”. The cruel children in question are white, very well dressed, smiling or even carnivorous, they feel the money and it feels like the visual of a Bret Easton Ellis novel, in the 1980s at Wall Street Pro-Reagan version. Only here: Donald Trump’s electorate does not look like this visual. Worse: the framing excludes black people that are found in the unwanted photo of the report and are however not mentioned. The president of the American Conservation Coalition (ACC) Movement Christophe Barnard reacted in X: “The New York Magazine Littlely erased all the black people from this cover photo and then complained that “the whole room was white”. CJ Pearson, African-American republican activist drives the point home: “I organized this event and the New York Magazine voluntarily left me aside because it would have weakened their story that Maga is a kind of racist sect. “We do not fight disinformation by disinformation, we do not fight Donald Trump by playing the ostrich, his head deeply Breakdown in the sand of denial.
In 2016, Donald Trump had won with workers and “small whites” employees, economically and culturally destabilized. The democratic narrative was then simple, we all subscribed to it: Trump’s victory is the last rattle of an elderly and white America disappearing before the country’s multicultural reality. It is only a parenthesis that will close. Only here, neither the defeat of Donald Trump in 2020, nor the assault of the Capitol of January 6, 2021, nor the multiple trials, nor the convictions, nor the long -term surveys, the good results of Biden, nor the delusions of Trump did not prevent him from being re -elected.
And as Trump himself said on the day of his second victory: he was re-elected thanks to the “largest, widest, most unified coalition”. Latinos voted at almost 45 % for Trump, 7 points more than in 2016 – in the name of inflation and immigration. African-Americans have not voted more for Trump, his score remains 12 % as in 2020, but they voted less for Kamala Harris (86 % against 90 % for Biden in 2020). On the other hand, if we look at the States level, we can see that in Caroline du Nord, Trump won 12 % of the African-American vote, when he did not exceed 5 % in 2020 … However, also against Intuitive that it seems, Donald Trump lost 3 points in the vote of the white population where it is only 55 % – he reached 58 % in 2020. Finally, it is among 18-29 year olds that ‘He made a box, he convinced 42 % of them, an increase of 6 points.
Donald Trump returns the planetary table
The truth is much more delightful than the truncated coverage of New York Magazine : It is no longer the race, according to the terminology used by the Americans, which dictates the vote-and it is happy-, but the socio-economic and educational level: 54 % of the voters without a university diploma preferred Trump In 2024, 4 points more than in 2020. Sex constitutes a new line of electoral sharing that we find all over the Western world: women and graduates vote more democratic, men and republican non-graduates- in whites as within minorities. An exciting and disturbing reality to take into account but which passes under radars. For what ? Because it is less “seller” than the white/minority divide?
Donald Trump returns the planetary table, he gives raging kicks in the anthill of the world – more or less balanced since the end of the Second World War – it does not act differently inside, cutting budgets here, decreasing The end of the financing of sexual transitions for minors, calling into question the diversity policies and inclusions of a line of his signature: not a day goes by without the American president sends an electric discharge in the institutions. Responding to them with the moral panic that blurs the sight and mouth the perspectives will only strengthen it.
Abnousse Shalmani, committed to the identity obsession, is a writer and journalist
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