The 2016 election was far from a fluke

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This is a very interesting piece that describes who voted for Trump in 2016 and who will turn out to support him in the midterms. These are not people who pollsters can't easily identify. I have a hunch that, like me, when a pollster calls, will give responses directly opposite to what I/they will do.

On the back roads and side streets of places like Erie, Pa., and Kenosha, Wis., emerge blue-collar optimists, evangelical pragmatists and suburban vacillators who turned the dials just enough to shock the body politic, leading to an emerging populist-conservative alliance that wrecked the old partisan framework.

Far from a fluke, the 2016 election was a product of the tectonic plate-grinding of our society — a backlash against globalism, secularism and coastal elitism. An August 2017 survey of 2,000 self-reporting Trump voters in the Rust Belt, commissioned by me and my co-author, revealed their motivations, priorities and decision making, and reinforced what we had found in our interviews.

These are the Trump cadres:

Hidden in plain sight

Rough rebounders

Christian soldiers

Red blooded and blue collared

Girl gun power

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