IAN WELSH: Why Poor White Males Are the Core of Trump’s Support. “Do not tell me, or them, that they are ‘privileged.’ Yes, it is better to be poor and white than poor and black, and better to be a poor white man than a poor white woman, but people who are in pain do not react well to some smug, upper-middle-class jerk telling them they are privileged when their lives are clearly terrible. . . . Trump does not talk to these people like he despises them. (Neither does Bernie.) Clinton does. She’s pandering, she knows it, and it comes through. The disdain drips.”

Entirely unrelated observation:

Yes, that’s right. We’ve reached the point where Glenn Greenwald is pointing this stuff out.