Probably the most interesting thing to come out of this election cycle is the dozens of articles and opinion pieces dedicated to understanding the motivations of the hardcore Trump supporters.
It paints a picture a group of mostly white Americans who the economy has moved past and society doesn't seem to value. The wildest part, to me at least, is the extent to which the economy and society never truly valued this group in the first place. They were always part of the underclass socially and economically. Yet for some reason, they associated themselves with economic and social success of the upper middle class.
What globalization and the recent Democrat success in the White House has finally laid bare is that they were never the beneficiaries of GOP policy - free trade, restriction of the minimum wage, lower taxes and cutting the social safety net. That this realization manifests itself in a desire for a strong, anti-establishment candidate isn't surprising.
What is surprising is that they haven't been voting for Democrats all these years when it's Democratic policies that would have largely protected their economic positions. Even the immigration argument doesn't really hurt them since the jobs most legal immigrants are coming here to take are not the jobs that low education workers would be competing for anyway.
