"Mocked and forgotten: who will speak for the American white working class?"

"Downscale communities are everywhere in America, not just limited to Appalachia and the Rust Belt – it’s where I have spent much of the past five years documenting poverty and addiction.

To say that “nothing happened to them” is stunningly wrong. Over the past 35 years the working class has been devalued, the result of an economic version of the Hunger Games. It has pitted everyone against each other, regardless of where they started. Some contestants, such as business owners, were equipped with the fanciest weapons. The working class only had their hands. They lost and have been left to deal on their own...

When you go into these communities and leave the small bubbles of success –Manhattan, Los Angeles, northern Virginia, Cambridge – and listen to people who work with their hands, you hear a uniform frustration and a constant anxiety. In a country of such amazing wealth, a large percentage of people are trying not to sink."

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/mar/24/white-working-class-issues-free-trade-american-south

Let's stop mocking and listen. 

Partially because they need better champions than Trump.

Related: “Millions of ordinary Americans support Donald Trump. Here’s why”;