Lena Afridi: It is dangerous to affirm the narrative of the working class as a white monolith. It erases the reality of many poor and working people of colour across the country. It creates a false pretence that racial minorities aren’t living outside city centres, in “Trump Country” – and as a result, aren’t receiving the brunt of vitriolic hate that’s become increasingly normalised just in the past few days.
Conversely, it makes the assumption that all Trump supporters are working class when that has been proven to be false time and time again. It is dangerous to imply that Trump’s policies can or will do anything in the interest of the working class rather than in the interest of assuaging white fear. Worse yet, it delivers on Trump’s promise to white America: that white people are the embattled, the justified, the deserving. More here.