“Most of the white working-class is solidly middle-American: church-going, socially conservative (pro-life, pro-marriage and pro- traditional morality). Many are gun-owners, veterans and reservists, patriotic and not embarrassed to show it and mystified by those who are.”
It’s really not any more complicated than that. Trump is a throwback to a time when the elites were like everybody else, they just had more money. It’s not like that anymore. A one percenter and a middle-class man had a lot more in common in 1965 than they do now.
Deplorables. Gun and God clingers. Dems don’t really want their vote.