“I think when you insult people, they get insulted.”
— Joan C. Williams
Source: Advice on how to talk to the white working class.
one of the things that a number of sociologists have pointed out is that often elite whites displace blame for racism onto less elite whites.
Do you really think Donald Trump could’ve ever gotten the kind of support he got from the white working class if he had not shown himself to be a bigot?
I don’t know. I’m kind of a data girl, and I just don’t know. He definitely approached a whole group of voters and brought out their worst selves. That’s for sure. The question is if Democrats had addressed the economic concerns and spoken to them with dignity, and attempted to bring out their best selves. I think we would’ve seen, not among everybody, but among a lot of these voters we would’ve seen something very different.