C.J. Polychroniou, writing in Common Dreams: “The wavering appeal of Donald Trump among his supporters, despite all his crimes and scandals, speaks volumes both about the nature and scope of the cultural divide in the U.S., as well as about the political and economic effects of neoliberalism. This is the only way to understand why the white working class and less-educated voters, the traditional base of the Democratic Party, have flocked to Republicans in recent decades and now represent Trump’s base. White working-class and less-educated voters broke ranks with the Democratic Party when the New Democrat faction severed completely its ties with the “New Deal” policies and embraced, in turn, economic policies that are the backbone of the neoliberal project.” Read more here.