The reasons why Trump has his appeal.

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10. The irony is that even in "the good old days"

to which they want to return, most of these folks were castaways and marginal as well. They were as uneducated, and to a great extent as unable to climb out of their circumstances as they are now. It might be that white privilege helped them to some extent, but by and large many of these folks would have still been unable to improve their lives--the white male elite made sure of that.

Since Bob Dylan just won the Nobel, I'm reminded of his song "Only a Pawn in Their Game"--how politicians and elites manipulated poor whites into seeing people of color as the enemy, when in fact their true enemy were those doing the manipulating.

The song is as true now as it was in 1963.