I haven ' t seen the movie . I ' m just here to say that looks like an HD version of nibbler from futurama and it ' s name is fucking niffler . <| sep |> Yes , at this scale , you do notice that Trump voters are richer than pharaoh ' s slaves or 11 thcentury Russian serfs . I suppose they really ought to check their privilege . By this standard the poorest of America ' s poor are wealthier than many of history ' s kings and aristocrats . But let ' s just price in the fact that in the 21 st century , dentistry and agriculture are as good or better than ever . Unfortunately , after you factor in the century and country we live in , the evidence that the Trump voter is especially welloff is pretty thin . This is a fucking horrible argument on that guy ' s part . He ' s literally just ignoring evidence he doesn ' t like and claiming the middle class is actually poor because this isn ' t Egypt ! . The places that went strongest for Trump are middle class suburbs . These are not the industrial proletariat types that Trump ' s camp is pretending . What actually happened on election day is they mostly stayed home . Yes , people ' s circumstances are often more complex on a personal level . But in general ? If you ' re making 70 , 000 a year you ' re probably alright financially . You probably have a stable job and live in a safe neighborhood . Maybe somebody making that with 6 kids and a giant house might not . But your average momdadkiddog suburban family ? They ' re fine . rump dominates the great white ghetto that is Appalachia . So does every other republican . Like I said , Trump got the standard republican voters more than anything else . My hunch is that even though Trump ' s support is now broader than the white working class , the white workingclass portion of the GOP formed a crucially important core of his support throughout the primaries . Ah yes , his hunchThe world ' s a complicated place , but propagating the idea that Trump won because of working people is dangerous for a lot of reasons . If only because it cedes to the farright the narrative that they want us to play by . They want to portray themselves as the party of working people even though they actually aren ' t . Also the GOP primary has nothing in common with the majority of voters in the country , we need to remember that .