The following article by Eugene Scott was posted on the Washington Post website November 14, 2017:
Despite post-election surveys that tell a different story, many Trump supporters say their decision to back the president was not because of “cultural anxiety” — disappointment with societal changes in the areas of race, gender and sexual orientation.
Instead, they claim that “economic anxiety” — a concern that “out-of-control” government spending is hampering the ability to enjoy economic prosperity — is what led them to get on the Trump train.
Priorities USA, the super PAC that works to restore Democrats to power, polled some 800 Trump voters who previously voted for Barack Obama to understand why they chose the GOP nominee. The poll found that Obama-Trump voters, many of whom are working-class whites and were pivotal to Trump’s victory, were losing ground economically and skeptical of Democratic solutions to their problems. Continue reading “Mike Pence’s NFL protest cost police $14,000. But does that matter to Trump supporters?”