Justin Ward
1 min readDec 26, 2019

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The myth that Trump’s Base is “working class” has been debunked over and over. The first articles addressing this myth came out almost immediately after the election as soon as exit polls were available.

The average pro-Trump household makes $72,000 a year, a full $10,000 above the national average. Trump supporters are by and large socially conservative small business owners who have blue collar identities but not incomes, ie Joe the Plumber.

Genuinely low income working folk overwhelmingly support Bernie.

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Justin Ward
Justin Ward

Written by Justin Ward

Journalist and activist. Founder and co-chair of DivestSPD. Bylines at SPLC, The Baffler, GEN, USA Today. Follow on Twitter: @justwardoctrine, @DivestSPD

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