Say what you like about Donald Trump, he knows his market. “I love the poorly educated,” he said recently to cheers from those he loves. The rest of America inhaled sharply. Welcome to a very un-American debate. Once redundant, the term “working class” is now part of everyday conversation. In an age of stifling political correctness, the only people who are fair game in polite society are blue-collar whites. How absurd these people are, we tell each other, and how ignorant. Don’t they know Mr Trump was born rich? Can they really be so stupid as to fall for his con trick?
隨便你怎麼評價唐納•川普(Donald Trump)，但他確實瞭解自己的受衆。「我愛那些教育程度差的人，」他不久前在他「愛」的那些人的歡呼聲中說道。其餘的美國人倒吸一口涼氣。歡迎加入這場非常不美國化的辯論。一度是裁員對象的「工人階級」，如今成爲了日常對話中頻頻出現的辭彙。在這個政治正確性令人窒息的時代，上流社會唯一能夠正當抨擊的羣體就是白人藍領。我們彼此說著，這些人是多麼可笑、又多麼無知。他們難道不知道川普出身富貴人家嗎？他們真的會愚蠢到會掉進他的圈套嗎？