Also, I think the part about resenting the management level (the next level up that people are in actual contact with) and the poor but not the 'rich' can't be overlooked. University (called college in the US) educated people voted republican. Because I think the college educated understand it isn't management level that is the problem but the whole neo-liberal, trickle down, invisible hand system that keeps making the rich richer. For the working class to blame the rich is to break faith with the basic American Dream which is drummed into US citizens. The idea that anyone can arrive in America poor and become rich through hard work. Better to demonise the poor, the immigrants, the people who don't look the same than break with that basic tenet.

So that being the case I can understand why people could get behind Trump, Tamaki and even Brexit. I remember reading Tamaki's followers see his wealth as indicating the success of his methods and that they can have it too if they follow and believe him and tithe to him. (Think voters see Trump that way?)

I think a lot of people, including me didn't take Trump seriously enough. Neither choice was great but I thought people would take the lesser of two evils. Instead, Americans voted for change and an idealised America (Make America Great Again) where there was once upon a time a securer middle class with manufacturing jobs before everything was globalised and outsourced. I can understand it from that point of view.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/behind-trumps-victory-divisions-by-race-gender-education/

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