The reality about working class whites...

[matt819]

4. Spot on, I think

It's about people not like them:

`` LGBTQ+ frighten them.
`` Same with Blacks, Hispanics, non-Christians, immigrants. It's not so much about white supremacy as it is white superiority. It's about some antiquated version of a status quo that has not been in America since the 1980s.
`` Abortion. This despite the actual fact that abortions decline under Democratic presidents.
`` Anti-intellectual, which covers anti-science, climate denial, anti-elites. Why are they this way? Who the fuck knows. I think it's because they don't want any disturbance of their very closeted world view. Maybe they don't have the intellectual capacity to take it all in. Maybe it's crisis overload. Maybe it's because they just aren't interested. Maybe they're just trying to put food on the table. Or maybe this, maybe that. As I said, who the fuck knows.

But I think you're right about the core issue. It's not the economy (apart from jobs), it's not about foreign policy, it's not about infrastructure.