Why Trump Won: Working-Class Whites – The New York Times
9th November 2016
As John Schindler said on twitter, (words to the effect of) if you tell some people they should just crawl off into the desert and die, they’re likely to remember that when it comes time to vote. Who knew?
“White working class” is just people. They don’t stop being people because they’re white, they don’t live in a big city and didn’t go to college. Trump also won most white college-educated men as well. More people.
Most of the media bloviation I’ve seen today is focused on telling their fellows of the Crust what sort of people carried Donald Trump to victory, with the unspoken subtext that it wasn’t Us, it was Them, so we’re still the same Quality Folk we always were, and it’s the world’s fault for being a horrible place.
It’s really sad. So much of what they ‘know’ about the world is just theater, stories that they tell each other in order to make the narrow little bubble in which they live seem like an actual world. I suspect that it’s because they spend so much of their time in made-up worlds, worlds from novels or from plays or from films, rather than the Rest Of Us who (aside from the occasional TV show) spend most of our time with real people doing real things that are grounded in real life.
God help us when they figure out how to do virtual reality properly.