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Originally Posted by suzzer99
The rust belt swing voters are the big story here. But the rest of the GOP base consists of tons of very comfortable people who happen to be on the old side, kinda racist, or just hooked on FoxNews. It's way too easy to paint the entire Trump coalition as a down and out rust belter.
I can totally believe that, and it was the same with Brexit, there was a massive swath of angry working class vote for Brexit, but also a huge block of older traditional conservative middle class affluent support.
There is a wider point though, I dont know how its going down in USA, but plenty of Middle Class people in the UK have seen their deal deteriorate since 2008, sure they still have the nice house "good" job etc, but their purchasing power has declined and their pension has got worse, as has their sick pay and holiday entitlement.
These are all people that had become used to the idea that the deal got better and better not worse.
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