Quote Originally Posted by janvanvurpa View Post
....then primarily low level low educated shopkeeper class....
One important thing to remember (and many lefties tend to forget this) is that uneducated is not synonymous with unintelligent. The first can be fixed fairly easily and the second can't be fixed.

These shopkeepers felt 'threatened by the rising income and social status of working class people'...
That's not what has happened here. The working class is not advancing in income or status and that was a driving reason in so many of them abandoning their traditional support for the Democratic candidate.

Since most Americans are authoritarian followers, that works every time.
So are most people everywhere.