So Trump does this well with minorities, but does not do as well with common, working, middle class white Americans ?....Right.
Maybe other people have different life experiences than you, different perspectives than you, different priorities than you.
Even if they ARE white.
You NAILED IT. I've never been able to figure out how to say this. We are not the same as each other. My experiences as a European-descended heterosexual female born and raised in the northeast of the U.S. are quite unlike those who share these superficial characteristics with me.
I have a different family than many do, with different stresses and we were not rich international travelers. My father worked for Ford for most of his life. I've been places that others have never seen, had experiences with people that others have never met.
Just for one illustration: my aunt, career U.S. military, paid for a trip for me, a teenager, and my mother to visit her at her station in Turkey. The first time that I ever heard the beautiful Muslim call to prayer I was sitting in a restaurant on the water in Istanbul at dusk. After we traveled to her apartment in Izmir, a man who actually did the call to prayer brought me up to the turret at the local mosque, to view the city. Everyone was delightful. So I cannot ever view Muslims with the hate that some people do who have not had my experience. On our return to the U.S., we went spent a few days in each Athens, Rome, and London, then the customs guy at JFK asked me where the goods were, and I told him that they were in the heel of my shoe. This was a formative experience in my life. Moreover, I cannot tell anyone to "speak English," as my eastern European grandmother struggled with it all of her life, but steered her six children to take part in WWII, and they all took part for the United States. One of my uncles drove a tank in North Africa and Anzio.
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