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Re: my lonely, years-long argument that "poor uneducated whites" are neither the base/majority nor the explanation for Trumpism: Stories now abound of middle-class and even affluent white insurrectionists leading and joining the hateful charge at the U.S. Capitol this week. 1/
Popular insults and assumptions about the socioeconomic status of these domestic terrorists--"backward hillbillies," etc.--both reveals deep suspicion and hatred of the poor and persists in dangerously underestimating the breadth of the Trump cult. 2/
Trumpism, it should be clear by now (and indeed income data has long proven), is about whiteness, not working-class or poor whiteness. We cannot dismantle this violent, racist movement while misguided by classism, whose U.S. roots intertwine with those of white supremacy. 3/
The persistent notion created and embraced by white liberals that Trumpism is about the "ignorant" and "uneducated" is willful denial of the extent and severity of white supremacy. Trumpism is a 74-million-person array of white folks, plenty of whom were never left behind. 4/4
By "lonely" I don't mean I was the only person with this insight! Rather, I'm the rare journalist with a national platform who comes from and still lives among the group (rural white working class) on which coastal media outlets problematically fixated to explain Trump's rise. 5/
That racism is rife among all classes of whites is hardly news to BIPOC folks. I'm a white person who writes about class; I used that vantage to beat this drum for years, challenging white media gatekeepers whose classism meant Trumpers in their own ranks didn't get reported on.
As you were, then, you are correct now:https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/13/liberal-media-bias-working-class-americans …
I can’t count the number of people I’ve directed to this incisive, sharp, important (and far far too rarely taken on board) piece of analysis and truth-telling by the brilliant @Sarah_Smarsh . Essential reading then and now.
for me the family members who are ardent Trumpists are college-educated, midwestern, home owners, etc.
Yep, my uncle who is a judge is the biggest Trump supporter I know. He lives in a tiny town in the Midwest.
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