“Those most enthralled with Donald Trump were not at the very bottom — the illiterate, the hungry,” she writes. Rather, Trump’s biggest fans could be found among “the elite of the left-behind,” meaning people “who were doing well within a region that was not.” www.vox.com/politics/369...
A new book shows how people are getting the right’s class appeal all wrong.
There's a reason a bunch of the J6 people were car dealership owners who took private jets to DC.
Local squires in rural environs. Third-generation car dealerships, beer distributorships, tobacco wholesalers. Large-scale farmers.
I live in MTG district in GA. Far fewer ramshackle lower income homes have Trump sings this time around. However, there is a street of upper middle class McMansions ]that I refer to as Trump road due to the # of Trump flags & signs proudly on display.
Always seemed pretty obvious to me the rabid fans were skoal-chewing, RV/Boat-owning, third-gen biz owners of like roofing and gutter companies. Yeah—kings of diminishing castles.
I live in a slowly dying community & the Trump supporters here are mostly the owners of dying businesses who are libertarians who think they’re Republicans. Basically they want to keep all their money & dole it out personally to people/causes that they see fit. Hint: there’s few that they see fit
This literally describes my neighbors. (POV: Adams, via Wellesley/Falmouth, Ann Arbor, Boston, DC. Eye-opening doesn’t begin to describe it.)
Can’t wait to read this one. Hochschild’s analysis in Strangers in Their Own Land was brilliant. I still think about it.
His biggest fans are the "fuck you, got mine" people.
So tRump picks a VP who talks shit about the way of life in Appalachia even wrote a book about the ravages of “hillbilly culture!” lol Meanwhile Biden is bringing new jobs to these areas. Curious what the “left behind’s” think of that?