you're gonna need a sharpie for your eyebrows!
lol @ "the shackles"
briefly, he still stands because he panders to real white working class concerns.
he of course doesn't offer a real viable solution. but he panders. so his base will not desert him.
bumfuck nowheresville is exactly where he's popular--whenever there are closed steel mills, factories, mines, etc., little hitler will be among them.
if the democrats win this election, they'll have to really start working on regaining their foothold with uneducated whites.
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eta. the other thing is that it's true that as things become more equal and whites lose their ancestral privileges, resentment will grow.
say you used to make $40 an hour in a factory and grope the cafeteria lady whenever you wanted, now you make $8 in macdonalds and your boss is a young latina who is going to college in the evening... you're gonna be sore as fuck for this.
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