The promise to “Make America Great Again” “appeals to a time when white working-class men had a higher status in society than they do now, and race is in there,” says Katherine Cramer (pictured), who has spent the past nine years talking with rural Wisconsin voters for her book, “The Politics of Resentment.”
But she dismisses categorically the idea that these voters were driven by racial animus.“To assume that what just happened is a bunch of people were convinced by the alt-right [and its white nationalist rhetoric] to vote for Trump, that does not at all fit the data that I’ve been collecting,” says Ms. Cramer.
Read more in The Christian Science Monitor.