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?
随便你怎么评价唐纳德•特朗普(Donald Trump)，但他确实了解自己的受众。“我爱那些教育程度差的人，”他不久前在他“爱”的那些人的欢呼声中说道。其余的美国人倒吸一口凉气。欢迎加入这场非常不美国化的辩论。一度是裁员对象的“工人阶级”，如今成为了日常对话中频频出现的词汇。在这个政治正确性令人窒息的时代，上流社会唯一能够正当抨击的群体就是白人蓝领。我们彼此说着，这些人是多么可笑、又多么无知。他们难道不知道特朗普出身富贵人家吗？他们真的会愚蠢到会掉进他的圈套吗？