The Democrats, as you would expect, see inequality in economic terms. It occurred to me this morning, however, that the Republicans see it in social and intellectual terms. The class enemy for them isn’t the rich car dealer who, like you, worked hard all his life to get where he is today; it’s the snooty professors, doctors, and lawyers who went to elite schools and think they’re smarter than you. Leave the rich folks who are just like you alone–crush the elitists and globalists who want to tell you what to do!
And so, Donald Trump, with his strange syntax and pedestrian tastes, is on our side regardless of his wealth, while Barack Obama, with his cool, urbane style, was not.
There is a lesson for the Democrats in that; if they nominate someone who comes across as being too professorial, their chances of flipping reactionary white workers are going to disappear.