Re: my lonely, years-long argument that "poor uneducated whites" are neither the base/majority nor the explanation for Trumpism:

Stories now abound of middle-class and even affluent white insurrectionists leading and joining the hateful charge at the U.S. Capitol this week. 1/

Popular insults and assumptions about the socioeconomic status of these domestic terrorists--"backward hillbillies," etc.--both reveals deep suspicion and hatred of the poor and persists in dangerously underestimating the breadth of the Trump cult. 2/

Trumpism, it should be clear by now (and indeed income data has long proven), is about whiteness, not working-class or poor whiteness.

We cannot dismantle this violent, racist movement while misguided by classism, whose U.S. roots intertwine with those of white supremacy. 3/

The persistent notion created and embraced by white liberals that Trumpism is about the "ignorant" and "uneducated" is willful denial of the extent and severity of white supremacy. Trumpism is a 74-million-person array of white folks, plenty of whom were never left behind. 4/4