This is a compelling essay. \u00a0Why do we say, \u201cit\u2019s preposterous for anyone to imagine voting for Trump\u201d and find it incomprehensible that he has so many supporters? \u00a0Because, Dreher says, we\u2019re from Belmont.<\/p>\n
Late the other night, we got a text from a woman we know. She is one of the working poor, white, and older. She is a good-hearted woman who works very hard. She came into work one day for a friend of mine. Her hand was swollen, and probably broken. She didn\u2019t have the money to go to the doctor. My friend offered to pay for it, but the woman wouldn\u2019t take it. She was too proud to take charity. She went to work. With a broken hand. My friend was moved to tears by her dignity, and begged her to go to the doctor, to not worry about the cost. It did no good. . . .<\/p>\n
I have no idea who this lady is supporting for president, or if she even votes. But I would bet you what\u2019s in my wallet that to the extent that she is engaged at all in politics, she\u2019s voting Trump. Because she would be voting her desperation. . . .<\/p>\n
What does Jeb Bush have to offer her? Or Marco Rubio? Or Ted Cruz? Frankly, I don\u2019t think that Donald Trump has much to offer her either (as J.D. Vance grasps), but he at least sees her, or appears to. That\u2019s not nothing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Go read the whole thing (and come back here after and tell me what you think)!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fishtown and Belmont are the names that Charles Murray gave to his two representative communities in Coming Apart, The State of White America, 1960 \u2013 2010, in which he described the growing divide between middle-class and not-so-middle-class whites. \u00a0And Rod Dreher uses this terminology in a compelling essay, \u201cTrump: Fishtown\u2019s Champion Against Belmont\u201c, at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[326,325],"class_list":["post-3913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fishtown-and-belmont","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"\n
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