Economic anxiety is not why Trump was elected.

[Cold War Liberal]

I'm a member of the white working class, like the rest of my family, and no one in my family has a college degree (working on it!). I'm very economically axious right now; three of the four people in my nuclear family, myself included, are having health issues (thank God we have decent health insurance), I'm going to miss a month of work (thank God my boss sees me as one of the better workers in my store and is gracious/understanding), I have tuition to pay and not nearly enough to pay for it, and I'm also having expensive car troubles (thank God I went for the warrenty).

And yet my support for Trump has not gone up; in fact, it's gone further down recently, due to the North Korea summit and the feud with Canada/the G7. My love for immigrants and my views that we should live up to the ideals my forefathers had for this country when they came from Ireland have not diminished. I not only don't fear black or Hispanic/Latinx people or blame them for my problems, but a number of my friends who have helped bear my burdens are not white.

It's almost as if economic anxiety and Trump support aren't strongly correlated! It's my personal experience, of course, but it's reinforced by the fact that almost all the the Trump supporters we have here in Harford County are either the stereotypical racist redneck types, or the rich people who want lower taxes.

(My dad, who voted for Trump somewhat reluctantly due, he says, to the Supreme Court, does not support his reelection bid, having realized that he's just as bad at governing as he hoped Trump wouldn't be)