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I read scads of research on this and devoted a whole chapter of my book to it. Donald Trump did not become president because of white working class "economic anxiety." He became president because of racialized, demographic anxiety, which he channeled through immigration. Fin.
Moderate Democrats who say they can "win back Trump voters" by talking to them nice, laying off Trump (including protecting him from impeachment) and offering "jobs, jobs, jobs" are not operating in current political reality.
Lots of people in the thread saying "but what about Russia?" Read my book (The Man Who Sold America) or MalcolmNance's books or the Mueller report. What Russia's IRA did was inject racial hate and fear into white Americans' social media feeds &anti-Clinton drek into AA feeds...
The Russian GRU stole the DNC's emails and Wikileaks distributed them at strategic points to sow anti-Clinton loathing among Bernie Sanders voters. Russiagate WAS about racialized anxiety, which was stoked and manipulated by Russian trolls and operatives.
