In many ways, Trump voters are George Wallace voters from 1968.
Like Wallace, Trump campaigns on white fear and grievance over perceived threats to their traditional power.
Trump's base is bigger than Wallace's because (a) now there's Fox News and a proliferation of other rightwing outrage media to gin up the anger; and (b) union membership has declined, pulling more working class voters away from the Democratic Party and toward a populist like Trump who uses the real decline in their standard of living (the fruit of trickle-down economics) to con them into supporting even more trickle-down economics.
But 90% of the electorate was white in 1968 versus 68% now.
Like Wallace, Trump campaigns on white fear and grievance over perceived threats to their traditional power.
Trump's base is bigger than Wallace's because (a) now there's Fox News and a proliferation of other rightwing outrage media to gin up the anger; and (b) union membership has declined, pulling more working class voters away from the Democratic Party and toward a populist like Trump who uses the real decline in their standard of living (the fruit of trickle-down economics) to con them into supporting even more trickle-down economics.
But 90% of the electorate was white in 1968 versus 68% now.