Where Did the American Working Class Go So Tragically Wrong?

Many pundits in the U.S. political arena have this subject on their minds: how did we get to a point where working class Americans–mainly white, religious folks with high school diplomas, residing in the center of the country, generally working with their hands–become Republicans?

In his article in The Atlantic:  “How the Ivy League Broke America,” David Brooks argues that blue collar workers are frustrated that they are not a part of the elite establishment, which tends to be Democratic, and are demanding a change.

I can understand that, but talk about “out of the frying pan and into the fire.”  I wish I could warn these people that the billionaire friends of Donald Trump are not their allies.  That sounds like something that would be self-evident, but sadly, it’s not.

Trump is appointing his biggest donors to positions in his government for which they are laughably unqualified, but that goes completely unnoticed.  For the next four years, our institutions of national defense, border security, energy, commerce, taxation, healthcare, and so forth will be run by people would are clearly entirely incapable of performing these jobs, but the MAGA base will think that everything’s just great.