Honestly, I mostly agree with you that this is the explanation. There’s kind of a pattern where liberal thinkpiece writers will either try to explain the Trump phenomenon in terms of one or a few components of these things, or else think of it as a result of a bunch of independent factors that add up to produce it. In reality, Trump voters seem to believe in the entire narrative, and it seems like a mistake to address it as though it’s merely the sum of its parts. “Illegal immigrants come to America, take our jobs, dilute our culture, bring crime and drugs, spur social atomization, and collude with the left to keep us down, all while shipping what few jobs are left overseas and imposing stupid and/or malicious regulations on us to benefit the bureaucrats over the little guy” is an entire worldview that, despite how silly it might seem to us liberals (except for maybe the part about cronyism), a large fraction of the country Actually Believes. Economics lesson about the Iowa Car Crop don’t seem to be helping much, and I’m not sure how much we can get Trump voters to trust us when we tell them that the narrative is faulty when there’s a genuine value difference in how much we care about preserving Red Tribe culture and helping the ingroup versus trying to help everyone by being globalist/universalist.
The only way to convince them would be to change ideologies.
When the plan is to prioritize foreigners over them, replace them with foreigners to obtain a permanent political majority, erase their culture, encourage social atomization, remove as many social rules as possibly feasible, bow to foreign cultures that are actually more oppressive in the name of “inclusiveness” and “diversity”, and abolish nations, then why on Earth would they go along with the plan?
The Left doesn’t want them to have a place that is theirs anymore.
I don’t know what to say.
There was another likely terrorist attack in the UK today. At least 19 people died.
Culture is real! It isn’t just aesthetics! Religion is ideology, much like Communism, and it can be as dangerous. It isn’t just the shape of the building you pray in! People actually believe in this stuff!
Polygamy practiced by normies is polygyny, and polygyny is bad and patriarchal. Some cultures practice cousin marriage at much higher rates than what we consider normal, because their religion says it’s okay, and over multiple generations this has pretty serious effects that can alter the cost of healthcare. Having a religious threat to kill people that leave the religion is cheating when it comes to competing in the metaphorical marketplace of ideas.
Culture is not individual! Culture is not linear!
These things are not accidents!