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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump gets the poor and working class White America to essentially vote for the 1%'s agenda.
That's why the Republican party does not turn on him. It's the source of his power over the party. Prime example, there was a massive tax cut for the top 1%, but no wall funding when the Republicans held power.
Bradshaw3
(7,553 posts)From the WaPo: Most trump voters were not working class
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/06/05/its-time-to-bust-the-myth-most-trump-voters-were-not-working-class/?utm_term=.7ce462ba4067
More statistical data here:
http://www.people-press.org/2018/08/09/an-examination-of-the-2016-electorate-based-on-validated-voters/
and here:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/631244/voter-turnout-of-the-exit-polls-of-the-2016-elections-by-income/
Of course many of those analyses include a portion of non-white voters but recent data points to two main factors in tRump's election: race and college education. More educated voters went for Clinton, but education and income don't always correlate; just ask a teacher and an electrician about their income.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)worked the Poor White Vote much the same way. Just convince them they are better than the poor Black and Brown folk down the street.
wiggs
(7,821 posts)Bettie
(16,151 posts)do this.
His "true believers" are the Republican base...the worst and dimmest rather than the best and brightest.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Bait and switch tactics on the gullible people he seeks out . He claimed he'd never touch Medicaid ,Medicare, and Social Security then signed into law with the GOPs help taking just under 2 trillion out of them, or that Mexico would pay for the wall, all bait and switch tactics often used by con men. He claimed also he'd make drug costs decrease then took millions from the big pharma companies and watched them skyrocket upward. They've been conned.