White working poor rational, but also now radical

At a recent evening in Toronto, Justin Gest, author of The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality, talked to some political players about Donald Trump.
U.S. President Donald Trump fired FBI director James Comey last week creating an uproar in Washington, D.C.
TORONTO—The guests at the event at the Royal Canadian Military Institute, just down University Avenue from the barricaded U.S. Consulate, were buzzing. Not about Christy Clark’s extraordinary comeback win in B.C., so much, or the restive Ontario Liberal caucus. They were buzzing about Donald Tr...

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