"Racism and xenophobia are part of why so many ordinary workers were won over to Donald Trump, but that's far from the whole story."

Of course it's not the whole story, but IT'S A HUUGE CHUNK of it!
The white working class has always voted against its self-interest when it comes to America's electoral politics. They did so with Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Trump & Trump.
Any white politician who can assure the white working class AND THE WHITE POOR that 'at least they're not black' and can trick them into believing they are superior to Black folks and that we present a challenge to their social status, whatever that is, will win the white working class & white poor votes.
Even Dr King spoke on that white phenomenon.


I like Jared Abbott's writings - he's done a few things on Caribbean politics, but on this I think he's underplaying anti-blackness in American electoral politics.