Poor white communities “deserve to die,” he wrote: “Economically, they are negative assets. “Even the economic changes of the past few decades do very little to explain the dysfunction and negligence-and the incomprehensible malice-of poor white America,” Williamson marveled. Williamson recently sized up Trump’s ardent working-class supporters and came away with a litany of toxic failings of morality, character, and family discipline. The non-college-educated white voter is notoriously the bedrock demographic aligned behind likely GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump-and leaders of the conservative movement, which has long pivoted on elaborate bait-and-switch appeals to its aggrieved, antigovernment, downwardly mobile base, are appalled to see that base swallowing whole the nativist, protectionist, and belligerently class-baiting nostrums bursting forth from the GOP’s unlikely orange-hued tribune of populist resentment. It’s no great exaggeration, these days, to say that the state of the white American working class is driving the American commentariat crazy.
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