Beginning around the time of Vietnam, leftists started losing control of the white working class. This came to a head in 1980 when they went for Ronald Reagan. That is when they decided that these insubordinate rednecks needed to be replaced and starved out of existence. Every immigration and environmental policy since had been formulated with these goals in mind. It is perhaps ironic that it has taken a billionaire business man from Manhattan to sympathize with them and pledge to do something to help them. You will often hear the leftists lament that the white working class votes against their own best interests. Well, they may not have Harvard PhDs, but they are smart enough to know when someone hates them. The leftists do and Donald trump doesn’t. And for a group who hasn’t had a voice in politics for 25 years, that is enough to get their vote.