Bc we’re so bad abt thinking about class in the US, all the “Trump won non-college educated whites” post-mortems took that to mean his base was poor + working-class white folx and not, like, the dude who clears six figures + owns the car dealership or has a small contracting biz
https://twitter.com/Patrick_Wyman/status/1441057170603216897
His rise wasn’t fueled by the Tim Rigginses and their brothers. It was fueled by the Buddy Garritys.
To zoom out from the Trumpers: a labor organizer working on a living wage campaign said the most dogged opposition came from Black fast food franchisees who framed the campaign as “an attack on Black entrepreneurship”
When she told me that, it made me think of @DrMChatelain’s book, “Franchise,” but again, about the overlooked power of the petit-bourgeoisie
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