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The Subclass of American Suburbania
The people in the suburbs are afraid of literally everything terrified of cities, they're terrified of people who aren't from around there. They're terrified of not having a grocery store nearby or their particular kind of grocery store nearby. It is the last vestige of the frontier yum and fantasy of self-sufficiency even though there's no self- Sufficiency to speak of. That brings with it a sense of proprietary control, rigid policing of borders and property value because that is what we've that's the buy-in to the system that we have offered. Trump's real base are people who are either not necessarily downwardly mobile but subjectively imagine themselves to be in danger of downward mobility