Do you REALLY want to understand Trumpers and white working-class voters? Please read this. Please.

[Land Shark]

40. Yes! It goes like this

1. Large population of disaffected working class people, should vote Dem.
2. Dems become increasingly corporate and don't explain causes of misery to these folks.
3. Over the years, the only voice continually "explaining" the misery are right wing voices claiming affirmative action, foreign immigration etc are to blame. Eventually, most settle on that false narrative because being bewildered is unsustainable.
4. These folks as a class now have on their political tombstone "deplorable and irredeemable racist, sexist, xenophobic homophobe."
5. Working class highly resents this label that, while it has some substantial evidentiary support, doesn't fairly describe the genesis of their anger or what they are all about AT BOTTOM.

And dems can get them back by reconnecting to working class roots. It doesn't require appeals to racism to do so, but it does require a populist understanding.