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Originally Posted by molson

It's not a moral, "blame" kind of responsibility, but views of some conservatives, especially the rural poor ones, are absolutely shaped by the their perception that those who actually have power and a voice hate and dismiss them as backwards and something inferior.

How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable

Elections, like criminal trials, are ultimately always about assigning blame. For a generation, conservative intellectuals have successfully pointed the finger at big-government-loving, whale-hugging liberals as the culprits behind American decline.

But the fact that lots of voters hated the Clintons, Sean Penn, the Dixie Chicks and whomever else, did not, ever, mean that they believed in the principle of Detroit carmakers being able to costlessly move American jobs overseas by the thousands.