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It also cannot be underestimated how much Trump's base sees him as a political outlier compared to the rest of the Republican Party.

While other Republicans were preaching about responsibility politics and telling working class Americans that the economy is perfectly fine and they just need to work harder, Trump instead gave those people convenient scapegoats to blame for their own situations. Whether that be the "radical left", immigrants, "the swamp", etc.,

"Make America Great Again" is, first and foremost, an acknowledgment that America is in a shitty state, and that messaging resonated greatly with disgruntled, working-class whites who already held racist views. In other words, people who are indeed suffering under late-stage capitalism, but are too bigoted, miseducated and misinformed to correctly identify the problem.

It's literally the same exact strategy Hitler used to get people to rally behind the Nazis, hence why the party masqueraded as "National Socialists".