Posted on 03/12/2017 9:01:33 AM PDT by Hojczyk
"Maybe people stay because they love where they live. Sometimes they leave, but most find their way back – they almost always come back. I did."
Hays is one of those white working-class Rust Belt voters who did not vote for Trump. The 39-year-old mother of a six-year-old boy looks more like a twenty-something with her long blond hair pulled in a loose ponytail and her fresh-faced expression.
People just check off a box and typecast folks when they find out where they are from or what they do, she thinks: "It is one of the things that really bothers me about the perception people outside of towns like this have about towns like this. Honestly, stereotypes are a lazy analysis."
And our middle class?
Well, we've kind of let that portion of our country shrink. And the politics of being ignored has become the culture and politics of the elite detaching and demoralizing those people who once were the proud standard-bearers of America's working middle class.
The election of Donald Trump to the presidency was not the beginning of this latest populist movement, nor was it the end. In fact, we are right in the middle — and, until we find a way to connect our ruling class with everyone else, this trajectory against each other is only going to continue.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Good article....hope the dems do not read it...
One of the few good reporters left....
Took her awhile to figure Trump was a serious candidate
Salena Zito is top rate. I have been reading her for years.
President Trump accomplishes this in one easy step.
>>until we find a way to connect our ruling class with everyone else<<
Therein lies the problem. Washington and the coastal liberals think they are there to RULE us. They need a major dose of attitude adjustment to realize that we choose them to REPRESENT us. Until then, there will be the divide that cannot and will not be bridged.
Cosmopolitan culture vs. Bedrock culture.
They have been in denial since November. Many of them will still not accept the results of the election.
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