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March 11, 2016

Millions of ordinary Americans support Donald Trump. Here's why

I call it a “mystery” because the working-class white people who make up the bulk of Trump’s fan base show up in amazing numbers for the candidate, filling stadiums and airport hangars, but their views, by and large, do not appear in our prestige newspapers. On their opinion pages, these publications take care to represent demographic categories of nearly every kind, but “blue-collar” is one they persistently overlook. The views of working-class people are so foreign to that universe that when New York Times columnist Nick Kristof wanted to “engage” a Trump supporter last week, he made one up, along with this imaginary person’s responses to his questions. | Thomas Frank The Guardian

Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 11, 2016 1:50 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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