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White Trash by Nancy Isenberg6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But she does show that for several centuries now, the white underclass has perplexed elites and other observers. ![]() Trump’s presidential run is not mentioned in Nancy Isenberg’s comprehensive and fascinating new study. Either way, if Trump’s candidacy is a problem, pundits on the right and left have thought of it specifically as a “white trash” problem. Never mind that numerous analyses have found that Trump’s appeal actually cuts across socioeconomic (if not racial) lines. Donald Trump’s speeches make them feel good. Williamson railed that the “white American underclass is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles. Reporting on the Donald Trump phenomena back in May, John Harris wrote in the British newspaper The Guardian that while Trump was indeed frightening, his liberal critics relied on “caricatures of rednecks and white trash.” Meanwhile, writing for the conservative National Review, Kevin B. ![]()
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