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Originally Posted by opendoor
It's probably partially true, though not in a way that flatters Trump or his voters. Just like Nixon's election was largely a negative reaction to the civil rights and peace movements, Trump's popularity (as pathetic as it is relative to virtually any other President) stems mostly from disgruntled uneducated whites reacting to the decades long erosion of their advantageous position within American society.
I expect it'll continue to happen on an even larger scale in the long term as the United States declines as a superpower. I get the impression that Americans think they're entitled to a certain standard of living and superiority over others simply because of where they're born. But they don't seem to realize that maintaining that takes work and they need to be better than other countries at doing what they do if they want to continue like that.
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This isn't accurate. Lots of whites have done better than ever - who makes up the majority of Silicon Valley tech elites?
This isn't just whites tightening their belts or having to share a drinking fountain, it is the worst heroin/suicide/divorce epidemic in American history.
No, it is the absolute collapse of white working class communities in certain regions of the United States, and a response against the constant moralizing and mockery of the urban elite who callously pursue policies that cause further disruption and decay in these communities.
How can people not see this? Also, why are people so quick to call racist when it was these same white working-class deplorables who flocked to Obama in droves in 2008 and 2012? Why? Because he said that he had their back. Now Trump does the same, and you wonder why they elected him.
What did Hillary Clinton have to say to the coal miners in West Virginia?