The thing about the provincial petty bourgeois is they are like god-kings in their own realm (their business, their community) but they also know there are people out there in wider world who don't respect them. Hence their aggrieved privilege & lordly self-pity: Trumpism.
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"Trump base see in their leader their adolescent selves, being told they have not measured up. Now the authority is a coastal elite, telling them they might be racist. If you listen to Trump in a certain way, you hear adolescent backtalk." They love it.https://medium.com/@gerald.weaver.author/marcel-proust-love-and-trump-519c73749bb9 …
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"wider anger of petty bourgeois at being disrespected" seems like an apt description of the other side as well, insomuch as a lot of the left is comprised of underemployed college grads.
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This is a good take....parleying his anger from his class (born rich) to another (born white and middle class) is a good trick.......genius in fact.....his one actual successful idea ....it was just intuition...but he immediately found his audience by late 2015 that was that...
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Still doesn't change the fact though that that many people voted for and still support Trump because the last President was black.
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@lionel_trolling as someone whose grandparents lived near Trump's childhood home, I can tell you he grew up in an elite enclave, but a misunderstood Queens one, filled with judges and party bigwigs & politically connected lawyers. It's a grubby, climby kind of semi-elite status -
Yes -- the "semi-elite" thing is at a deep level, here.
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