Does anyone understand Trumps base?

[Rev. Rye]

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?

I’d show you a clip, but given that it’s Blazing Saddles, it’d probably involve too many N-bombs to be acceptable, even if they are all in the context of 19th century white people being made to look like bigoted idiots, because they are.