The Resilience of Trumpism

Arlie Hothchild has been writing about the growing conservatism among working class or lower middle class whites and demographic shifts in American politics. Do you regard this as a testament to class and cultural resentments among their voters? And to what extent is it a result of xenophobia, racism and white demographic anxiety? Or is it even possible to disentangle these things? Are they all mixed up? Well, I think it began with race. The emergence of a conservative Republican party on race and a liberal Democratic party on race began with the 1964 Civil Rights Act. That's when polling saw the two part people, voters began to see the two parties for the first time as left and right on