POLISCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: New England College
13 Sep 2016
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Not many of the people attracted to trump are people you run into as a new. Peoples incomes are at and the middle class is down. These people do not trust washington: especially due to connection to wall street ii) they like trump because he is an outsider. Money is accumulating at the top i) this also makes people distrust status quo politicians ii) they want money going back to the middle class: immigration. 59 million immigrants have entered the united states since 19655 i) this number is only on the rise. When people have problems they always look for someone to blame i) this often lands on the shoulders of immigrants: trumps supporters like his crude words about immigrants, washington. People don"t trust government: americas place in the world. People feel as if we"re not safe. As other countries begin to rise many people feel intimidated. Someone like trump claims he will bring back a position of prominence to.
