{"id":65408,"date":"2016-04-23T13:50:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T17:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65408"},"modified":"2016-04-23T14:22:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T18:22:12","slug":"some-needed-truth-about-trump-followers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65408","title":{"rendered":"Some needed truth about Trump followers"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I noted in a piece here at TAH the other day, critics of Donald Trump like to point to his substantial following as being made up of the great unwashed, the benighted and impoverished lower classes who cling to their guns and religion, xenophobic and intolerant of all unlike themselves. It is a favorite theme not only of the snotty liberal media who look down their Pinocchio noses at conservatives and traditionalists, but also of the elitist Republican establishment that is royally pissed at losing control of the candidate selection process this election.<\/p>\n

Except, it appears, that isn\u2019t true at all, as many of us have been saying for some time now. The opposite truth has actually been substantiated by some honest liberals (yes I know it\u2019s generally an oxymoron) who have properly done their homework, those at The Economist, an intellectual publication usually too socially liberal for my conservative tastes. As their research and their graphs in this recent article<\/a> demonstrate, almost two-thirds of Trump supporters earn more than $50,000 and more than three-fourths have at least some college. Have a look:<\/p>\n

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What would be interesting to see now is how this stacks up against an assessment of Hillary\u2019s followers. After all, if, as the mainstream media claim, she is the candidate of minorities and the poor, then those income and education figures should take a rather substantial hit. And for those among you who have been reluctant to consider voting for Trump if he becomes the Republican nominee, as you can see, you\u2019re in good company if you do vote for him..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I noted in a piece here at TAH the other day, critics of Donald Trump … Some needed truth about Trump followers<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":622,"featured_media":65409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}