'Economic Anxiety' Doesn't Explain Donald Trump

'Economic Anxiety' Doesn't Explain Donald Trump
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Donald Trump’s surprise presidential win has many people wondering: How could so many voters have supported a candidate famous for questioning the legitimacy of the first black president and calling Mexican immigrants rapists?

 

anxiety. An angry working class, left behind by the economy and the elites who run it, voted for a radical candidate who promised them change, the rationale goes. But to say that Trump won because of economic outrage is to misunderstand today’s working class and to erase a huge portion of it entirely. 

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