blue collar voters | Watching America

Canada: Why Kamala Harris Should Worry that Michigan’s Blue Collar Could Be Turning Red

Rejeanne Lacroix - October 31, 2024. Published in Toronto Star

Canada: US Opponents of Lockdown Are Tired of Being Told What’s Good for Them

Rejeanne Lacroix - April 23, 2020. Published in Toronto Star

Canada: Trump’s Poor and Rural Supporters Line Up to Take Their Economic Beating

Rejeanne Lacroix - April 6, 2017. Published in CBC

But America's conservative establishment, particularly in rural and poor states, has done a superb job of convincing the people who most need government's help that asking for it is shameful — it's socialism and it's evil — and that they should effectively vote against their own economic self-interest.

Canada: Did Racism and Sexism Elect Trump?

Rejeanne Lacroix - November 21, 2016. Published in The Globe and Mail

Canada: Trump Echoes the Ravings of an Anti-Semite

Rejeanne Lacroix - October 19, 2016. Published in The Globe and Mail

Canada: America’s ‘Economic Anxiety’ Is Fuelling Donald Trump

Rejeanne Lacroix - October 18, 2016. Published in National Post

Canada: Trumpism Doesn’t End If Clinton Wins

Rejeanne Lacroix - October 12, 2016. Published in National Post

If anything, given rising disparities in skill and income driven primarily by offshoring and automation, the U.S. nativist movement is poised to grow.

Canada: How Trump Turned ‘Deplorables’ into a Campaign Rallying Cry

Rejeanne Lacroix - September 14, 2016. Published in CBC

Canada: Trump Support More Diverse than Media Admits

Rejeanne Lacroix - July 27, 2016. Published in Toronto Sun

Canada: Why Donald Trump Is the Losers’ Candidate

Rejeanne Lacroix - July 5, 2016. Published in Ottawa Citizen

Trump does not believe his supporters are inherently losers, of course. If they were, we can be sure he would shun them. Rather, they are victims.

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