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Originally Posted by William_the_Bloody
What matters is that he reliant on the support of an embittered working class that have watched their wages, standard of living, and life expectancy decrease over the past few decades.
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Life expectancy is on the same rise it's been at for decades. Wages and standards of living are down because US businesses are shipping jobs overseas and/or cutting their worker expenses to the bone like they learned how to do during the 2007 crash. Trump has garnered the support he has from the base, who would vote for Hitler rather than a democrat, the bible belt who only care about getting rid of abortion, and the rural states who believe the democrats are going to take away their guns. The remainder of his support is angry and afraid Wonder Bread white Americans who want to place all of the blame on "those other people".
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Originally Posted by William_the_Bloody
Yes of course, that's a factor to. Xenophobia always arises when economic inequality increases in a country. People don't tend to worry about immigration when they're life prospects are good.
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See my reply above.