Trump's Base Is Not Poor, It's Middle Class

by Jen Gravesvia GIPHY
Picture a Trump supporter. Now tell me what class s/he's in.
Did you say middle class?
You didn't.
But Ben Davis, in Frieze, points to a strikingly important Gallup poll of 125,000 American adults.
It found (emphasis mine): "His supporters are less educated and more likely to work in blue collar occupations, but they earn relatively high household incomes and are no less likely to be unemployed or exposed to competition through trade or immigration."
In other words, they m