Surprised by Trump win? Stop ignoring the white working class.

THE HAND-WRINGING has been going on for weeks: How did the media miss the biggest political story of our lifetimes, the revolt of the white working class that ushered in the Age of Trump?

Here’s why: We just don’t care about the working class.

We in the national news media, whatever the griminess of our origins, inhabit a different stratum of society, and it colors our coverage. CONT.

Gary Weiss, Columbia Journalism Review

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