Materially, it makes little sense for blue-collar workers to vote for Modi, Orban, or Trump, a billionaire whose platform is to cut taxes for the rich. Hitler and Mussolini had their share of support from the poor too.
What are some of the theories of why this happens?
I know scapegoating foreigners for poverty is part of it. Wilhelm Reich wrote The Mass Psychology of Fascism but I haven't read it.
To be fair, every single media outlet the average person would be exposed to had one viewpoint on Bernie, and it was "wow this guy is a crazy lefty, what has he accomplished, also this woman is telling you that she hates bernie because he's sexist"
Agreed, so it feels like that is a bigger factor in people's opinions.
MSNBC brought Harvey Weinstein on one of their shows, didn't introduce him as a Clinton surrogate and allowed him to say that Sanders is sexist without any pushback.