Thank you for sharing your story, Stephanie. It was a great example of the basic truth that this is because that is: middle-class smugness breeds working-class thugness (and vice versa). Trump is an avatar of our collective karma: the personification of our collective ignorance, greed, hatred, denial, and despair. The only antidote to this collective pathology is to cultivate empathy, even for those who resent us bitterly — those we despise.