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12. Six Burning Questions About the State of Democracy

Is This Democracy

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Is Trump Attracting White Working Class Voters?

There's very little evidence that the people who were really drawn to Trump in 2016 were people who were economically disadvantaged. There is a much, much stronger connection between racist attitudes and sexist attitudes than income or economic instability. It seems like it was the best off people in the worst off places - basically meaning they felt like their status, they had real status, but it felt perhaps insecure,. But also it felt like they really wanted to keep it because they were seeing all these people around them that didn't have it. That made them guarded even more jealously and willing to perhaps even sacrifice their commitment to democracy in order to keep it.

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