I think I’m starting to understand the Trump movement a bit more. If you consider his primary demographic, it is white males aged 45+ and usually not college educated. That correlates with a certain idea of privilege, American bravado, so-called straight talk, and ideology. This is the core group of people who believe the greatest generation already was born and died. At the same time there is a upswell of voters who are the younger polar opposite of that demographic who have been powering the Bernie Sanders campaign to close wins and losses across the states.
The rest of us sit in the middle, content to vote for someone we know and expect to have a nuanced understanding of the national and international political situation.
These powerful opposing forces I mentioned will need to go head to head to answer that question of ‘where and what is America?’ and ‘How do we make America strong again?’
Some Thoughts:
- I started to trail off at the end there, losing time and consciousness. Late blogs, man…