Top Democrats Are Wrong: Trump Supporters Were More Motivated by Racism Than Economic Issues

Summary: IT ISN’T ONLY Republicans, it seems, who traffic in alternative facts. Since Donald Trump’s shock election victory, leading Democrats have worked hard to convince themselves, and the rest of us, that his triumph had less to do with racism and much more to do with economic anxiety — despite almost all of the available evidence suggesting otherwise. Consider Bernie Sanders, de facto leader of the #Resistance.