I attended the Trump rally last night part 2

Everyone inside the field house was happy and friendly, and tolerated the warmup speeches pretty well. There were outbreaks of USA and Lock Her Up, but nothing uglier than that. This is Bucks County, after all.

I became aware that I am an elitist snob. 90% of the attendees looked stupid and not even blue-collar. There were a lot of kids there, especially many young men who did not look old enough to vote. My grandmother would say the crowd was trashy.

Donald appeared, and everybody went crazy. He gave his usual speech, with a few details I hadn't heard before. Because we are in the Philadelphia suburbs, a sop to Philly was that he would reopen the Philadelphia Naval Yard because he wants to make 350 battleships (!), and a slap at Common Core, which, to me--well, so what.

The crowd roared their approval at the usual shit, the renegotiated trade agreements and preventing Mexicans from taking our jobs and building a wall (does he think Radical Islamic Terrorists come into the US via Mexico, or what?). I stood there thinking, I would bet 80% of this crowd buys their clothes and other consumer goods from Wal-Mart, where low prices are a direct result of our trade agreements with China, Viet Nam and Pakistan. A trade agreement promoting American-made goods would result in pricing a lot of the things these Trump supporters buy right out of their reach.

I further doubt that anyone in that crowd had ever lost a job to a Mexican.

And needless to say, the crowd was 100% white.