Does anyone understand Trumps base?

[Pat Mustard]

Have you ever read What’s the Matter with Kansas? it was written in 2004, and it’s specifically pursues the question of why the poorest parts of America. The answer, as Thomas Frank sees it:


And it really helps that the Republicans really know how to pander to these, well, I’ll let Gene Wilder say it:

Why is Willy Wonka talking to a dude about morons? Is this what he did after he left the chocolate factory to Charlie?

Nah, that's what he did on his sabbatical, before hiring on the Oompa-Lompas.