Yea he's right. DT was looked at as a bafoon amongst the upper echelons of government and finance (mostly because his fake media persona imo), though that is what he aspired to and what he fashioned himself to be. That's how he nurtured his base of regional/local bourgeois who also hate the coastal elites from their position of envious resentment.
They didn't personally love the guy, but they knew he'd reliably act in their class interest (or at least could be easily distracted from acting against it). And even this may be overstating how much of social outsider he was -- remember how he was at some wedding with the Clintons, and was invited to the White House Correspondents' Dinner? The Glenns are doing half-baked high school clique analysis instead of class analysis.
Trump still has a lot of support because:
He's good at conning rubes, and he conned a bunch of rubes to think he's an outsider.
They can't admit their mistake because that would mean they've been owned.
If you're delusional all by yourself you're a crank; if you're delusional with half the country you're a political party.
and he conned a bunch of rubes to think he’s an outsider.
Yes, that's his point. Greenwald says in the clip that his appeal is that in the media it seems like the Clintons, McCains and so on look down on the way Trump behaves. People see that's he's hated by the people they hate themselves, and that's why they support Trump.
Yea he's right. DT was looked at as a bafoon amongst the upper echelons of government and finance (mostly because his fake media persona imo), though that is what he aspired to and what he fashioned himself to be. That's how he nurtured his base of regional/local bourgeois who also hate the coastal elites from their position of envious resentment.
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Obviously not, but that's how many people perceive him.
They didn't personally love the guy, but they knew he'd reliably act in their class interest (or at least could be easily distracted from acting against it). And even this may be overstating how much of social outsider he was -- remember how he was at some wedding with the Clintons, and was invited to the White House Correspondents' Dinner? The Glenns are doing half-baked high school clique analysis instead of class analysis.
Trump still has a lot of support because:
Yes, that's his point. Greenwald says in the clip that his appeal is that in the media it seems like the Clintons, McCains and so on look down on the way Trump behaves. People see that's he's hated by the people they hate themselves, and that's why they support Trump.