I'm sure I was unclear. The people I am describing are not "horribles," or "deplorables,” to use Hillary's term. Imagine yourself a black man who has spent his life seeing the world be "about" white people. Wouldn't you like to have a candidate say that the world should be about people like you? That wouldn't make you a racist; it would make you human.

My sense is that over the decades preceding 2016, the US has come to be more and more "about" people who are not cis-het white Christian men, and those men can feel in their bones a threat to the privileges they enjoy. I can say that's a good thing, but I'm not on the bubble. I did just fine on a level playing field. But many, many people rightly fear that equality is not entirely about growing the pie. Some of it is about sharing the pie differently. There will be losers, and many more than before will be the aforementioned C-HWCMs .

You don't have to hate anyone to care about yourself. You don't need to be a racist to believe you lost a job to a "DEI hire." You don't have to be a deplorable to play "check the boxes" as you watch the latest TV series. Who's gay, who's non-binary, what couple is inter-racial, where's the non-white authority figure, who's in the wheelchair? I saw one series that featured a fat black lesbian computer nerd. The producers must have been high-fiving themselves all the way to the bank - a DEI fourfer.

Thurgood Marshall's argument about the effects of segregation on black kids cuts both ways. As the culture moves away from white supremacy, white people are going to feel threatened. Then, "but my pension" and "but my income" become proxies for "but my privilege."

IMO, most Trump supporters are good people, salt-of-the-earth types who would run into a burning building to save a black woman's dog. But their fears create confirmation bias when someone says that the "other side" will threaten their pension or their income. That's why I posed the questions I did. HOW does Kamala Harris threaten your pension or your income? WHO is telling you this, and why are you believing him? Donald Trump lies about everything to everyone. Yet people believe his claims about how the Democrats will ruin their lives. Something other than sound economic analysis is at play. I don't think it's antipathy toward others, but it is fear for oneself.