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On St Patricks Day, a US State of the Nation special with Bernie Sanders

The David McWilliams Podcast

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Why Do You Think Working Class Americans Vote for Donald Trump?

I don't know that it's fundamentally different than a phenomenon we're seeing in parts of Europe as well, where working class people often in rural areas are looking around them and they don't see government responding to their needs. So literally in the United States, there are large parts of our country, often in rural America, where life expectancy is declining. And then you have a strong man, a demagogue coming along and said, you know what the problem is? The problem is immigrants, the problems with gay people, black people,. Muslim people... That's the historic role the demagogues have always played. And that's what Trump is about.

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