[brandonmenc]

Well, at least we know what "side" you're on.

> For the white lower middle class [...] Those are the people who support Trump and the Tea Party.

There's another white lower middle class - the educated but underemployed left (think literature majors waiting tables), and they're also terrified.

They're terrified that we're just an election away from mandating every rape victim be violated with a penetrative ultrasound, or that they're guaranteed to be shot on sight by some redneck if we allow open carry.

As someone holding both liberal and conservative positions, I'm always dumfounded when the left believes the right has the monopoly on fear.

[TeMPOraL]

Everyone likes to think about their ingroup as victims of oppression, and their outgroup as the oppressors. In extreme cases, this is what drives the social justice movement on the Internet.