Donald Trump, photo by Gage Skidmore via Flickr CCBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,797, November 3, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The election of Donald Trump in 2016 posed a challenge to analysts and scholars. How could the election of so politically inexperienced a candidate, one with a highly controversial personality and a political orientation that differed from that of all his predecessors, possibly be explained? Most of the explanations tend to focus on the socio-economic and cultural grievances of primarily working-class white people from the Midwest and the South. These factors are also considered to exercise major influence on the rise of …read more
