Trumpie’s people
by digby
This story about Trump supporters is really something. It’s clear that what they’re responding to is his ongoing repetition that America is a loser country which he will make great once again. And they like his plan to do it: get rid of immigrants, stop being politically correct (which translates into stop giving all those gays, feminists, blacks etc “special rights”) and fight the foreigners who are trying to destroy us.
And it’s also clear that many of them think this because of all the social changes and economic insecurity the last few decades have brought. Basically they are all feeling like they’ve fallen behind and they can’t catch up. They like Social Security and bemoan the fact that they have no pensions. Trump support Social Security and speaks to their greater economic worries by telling them who to blame: our feckless “leaders” (who are all dumb, unlike these salt of the earth voters who get it) immigrants, gays, feminists, African Americans, foreigners.
Never the billionaires. Like him. Whom he always portrays as just doing business the way business is done. Funny that. But they don’t mind. As long as America has “so many victories they’ll be coming out of your ears.” That’s what they want victories. The question is, victory over whom?