First off, the article you cited was published more than two years ago. The article quoted here (and which I read in its whole, vile entirety) was published earlier this month.
The problem with WIlliamson’s article from a couple of weeks ago was his conflating white working class and lower middle class with the Caucasian underclass, which my grandma would have identified as “white trash”. Yes, the drug abuse, illegitimacy, welfare dependence, and the rest that go along with the “white trash” lifestyle indicates a degree of self-failure in a manner similar to those of the inner cities with darker complexions.
But that is not the major support group for Donnie-Boy. And Williamson’s attempt to lump in the folks that may not have a degree beyond trade school and apprenticeship with the welfare drawing meth abusers in Appalachia is just wrong on so many levels, I can’t even take it apart point by point. This boy grew up poor in Lubbock and got himself a degree. As we Texans say, “good on him”. Now he has progressed to the point of probably fitting in really well with the progressives in San Francisco, blaming the victim for what has gone on in the victim’s life. That the victim is in this case is the last acceptable scapegoat in our society, the non-progressive white male does not seem to register with him at all. I will offer this up in Williamson’s defense; he does also ruthlessly take apart people of color that the progressives normally argue are victims of the rich and powerful just as viciously as he attacks the failings of the caucasian underclass.
“The problem with WIlliamson’s article from a couple of weeks ago was his conflating white working class and lower middle class with the Caucasian underclass, which my grandma would have identified as “white trash”. Yes, the drug abuse, illegitimacy, welfare dependence, and the rest that go along with the “white trash” lifestyle indicates a degree of self-failure in a manner similar to those of the inner cities with darker complexions.”
I disagree. I believe it was the Trump pumpers who conflated his statements on the white lower class with the white middle class. Several posters here on free republic made the claim that Williamson wanted the white middle class do “die out” because Williamson said tariffs weren’t the cure for all our ills.