The antecedents of Trumpism can be traced to a series of independent presidential campaigns that drew many members of the white working class out of the midcentury New Deal coalition: George Wallace’s independent presidential campaign in 1968, which won Wallace 13.5 percent of the popular vote, and the 1992 campaign of Ross Perot, who captured 19 percent, the highest percentage for a third-party candidate since Theodore Roosevelt ran as the candidate of the Progressive Party in 1912. Although he was a Texan, Perot did poorly among white southerners and did best among high-school-educated
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