6. Trump Appealed to Populists Who Felt That They Were Being Ignored
Many within the Republican party spoke out against Trump as he ran a campaign that seemed to be opposed to so many tenets of the Republican platform. What people didn’t expect was a surge of populism. Rather than heavy-hitters who had been used to guiding American policies for decades, ordinary people, particularly white Americans who lived in poverty, supported his programs. They believed that he would return the jobs, such as coal-mining jobs, that had been lost due to overseas outsourcing and industrial development.
