Niin, Trumphan on aina ollutkin työväenluokan ja nimenomaan työtä tekevän keskiluokan presidentti.
Ohessa Atlantic -lehden juttu, jossa hämmästellään sitä, miksi USA:ssa duunarit hurraavat presidentille, joka asioiden vähän omasta mielestä väärin mennessä kiljua ja manata, kuin karkkikaupasta ulos potkittu hemmoteltu pikkupoika. Kuten Tom Nichols tuossa kirjoittaa, Trump on
raharikas esikaupunkilainen kiusaajatyyppi, juuri sellainen kaveri, jollaista duunariäijät vihaavat.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... nt/612031/
But since his first day as a presidential candidate, I have been baffled by one mystery in particular:
Why do working-class white men—the most reliable component of Donald Trump’s base—support someone who is, by their own standards, the least masculine man ever to hold the modern presidency? The question is not whether Trump fails to meet some archaic or idealized version of masculinity.
Is Trump honorable?
This is a man who routinely refused to pay working people their due wages, and then lawyered them into the ground when they objected to being exploited. Trump is a rich downtown bully, the sort most working men usually hate.
Is Trump courageous? Courtiers like Victor Davis Hanson have compared Trump to the great heroes of the past, including George Patton, Ajax, and the Western gunslingers of the American cinema. Trump himself has mused about how he would have been a good general.
He even fantasized about how he would have charged into the middle of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, without a weapon. “You don’t know until you test it,” he said at a meeting with state governors just a couple of weeks after the massacre, “but I really believe I’d run in there, even if I didn’t have a weapon, and I think most of the people in this room would have done that too.”
– Touhumme eteni yhä pitemmälle, ja kun aloimme suoraan sanoen nussia lauteilla sylikkäin, Kari Tapio räjähti, Frederik muistelee kirjassa.
