On the media - Class in America

 This has been election season full of surprises and every day I wake wondering just what is going to happen next. Many political pundits have commented on the rise of Trump and have taken the position that he is a  candidate like we have never seen before. I admit that he does have a unique style and look. I honestly thought he wouldn't make it a month with all the jokes about that amazingly freaky haircut. However, his tactics are something we have seen before in the history of politics and can be successful. He has tapped in to an electorate of disaffected people, working class, "white trash," and as author Nancy Isenberg points out, the poorest of Americans.
    Love him or hate him, he conquered the entire GOP field in less than a year by going with his gut instincts and somehow gaining the ear and attention of many in our society that make it function. He has reached the factory workers, farmers, air conditioning installers and the steel workers that constructed the buildings we attend class in every day. He made a deliberate choice to abandon the language of a privileged elitist  who golf's at Doral or has their name plastered in gold and adopted a tone that has resonated with the very people who built all he owns.
    My best friend and his wife have never voted in an election. In fact, I am often the one that brings up current events because the news has never been there thing. It was almost like pulling teeth to try and get them a satellite box, but this year, both are somehow keenly aware of the candidates on the news and are avid supporters of  Trump. His reasoning may seem shocking to a political scholar. It is not based on his policies, plans, or economic position, but it is simply because as he puts it, "Trump sounds like me."
    There is no denying the power of this kind of rhetoric as can be seen in the photo above. If you are a Trump supporter, you are completely in love with him. Some have likened his rise to a revolution and like the early colonists sent to our country as disposable workers hundreds of years before, it can be the lowest class that have immense power to rally against the system. The winner this November will be the candidate that convinces voters they have stripped off class and are in fact one of the people. Whether it is true or not.