Hillary Clinton’s “Basket of Deplorables” Gaffe

One of the pressing questions of the 2016 campaign is: Why are so many Americans supporting Donald Trump? Broadly speaking, there are two competing theories, one cultural and the other economic. According to the first theory, the most powerful force motivating Trump supporters is resentment at the liberal, multicultural society that they see developing around them, a resentment largely rooted in racism. The economic theory, meanwhile, argues that what has turned Trumpism into a mass movement isn’t racism so much as the failure of the American economy to deliver rising living standards for much of the population—particularly the working-class and middle-class white households that prospered during the postwar decades.

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