[100American]

Awesome article, must read!

Watch and See...

[HarleyLady27]

Well I can see where some are going to have a hay day with the word ‘Mars’ but this article is right spot on....

And there are a lot of ‘mars’ people out there, I guess the ‘illegal aliens’ remark wasn’t to far off if you connect the two dots...

All I can say is: GO TRUMP!!! 2016 All the way to the White House and Make America Great Again!!!

[P-Marlowe]

These people are NOT Radicals. They are just plain American Citizens. This is the baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and chevrolet crowd.

To call them radicals is an insult. They are the true moderates. They are the middle of middle America.

[Iron Munro]

Yes, if only those bitter gun clinging, under-educated, narrow minded, jingoistic, middle income, radical, racist, constitutionalists could be re-educated at liberal arts colleges we wouldn’t have them supporting simplistic nationalistic Bible-thumpers like The Donald.

/s

[PGalt]

Now watch what you say or they’ll be calling you a radical,
Liberal, fanatical, criminal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh3Kk5tZSmo

[Fiji Hill]

While con­duct­ing ex­tens­ive sur­veys of white voters in 1971 and again in 1975, War­ren iden­ti­fied a group who de­fied the usu­al par­tis­an and ideo­lo­gic­al di­vi­sions. These voters were not col­lege edu­cated; their in­come fell some­where in the middle or lower-middle range; and they primar­ily held skilled and semi-skilled blue-col­lar jobs or sales and cler­ic­al white-col­lar jobs. At the time, they made up about a quarter of the elect­or­ate. What dis­tin­guished them was their ideo­logy: It was neither con­ven­tion­ally lib­er­al nor con­ven­tion­ally con­ser­vat­ive, but in­stead re­volved around an in­tense con­vic­tion that the middle class was un­der siege from above and be­low.

These sound like "the forgotten Americans" to whom Richard Nixon referred in his acceptance speech after the GOP nominated him for president:

They are not racists or sick; they are not guilty of the crime that plagues the land.

They are black and they are white -- they're native born and foreign born -- they're young and they're old.

They work in America's factories.

They run America's businesses. They serve in government.

They provide most of the soldiers who died to keep us free.

They give drive to the spirit of America.

They give life to the American Dream.

They give steel to the backbone of America. They are good people, they are decent people; they work, and they save, and they pay their taxes, and they care.

Like Theodore Roosevelt, they know that this country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless it is a good place for all of us to live in.

These "forgotten Americans," later dubbed by Nixon "the Silent Majority" would put Nixon and later Reagan in the White House.

[iontheball]

What both authors (of the book and this article) miss in their description of Middle Class Americans is that they are the true patriots. This drives their political philosophy more than labels like Republican, Democrat or Independent. They are the ones who are first to volunteer to fight in wars and most have lost family loved ones in past campaigns. As such, they are deeply invested in America and all she stands for. They are the Bible believing, gun loving, hard working, deeply patriotic citizens in whom the soul of America resides.