The single most amazing sentence from a focus group of Trump supporters

[Liberal_in_LA]

Bloomberg Politics' John Heilemann went to New Hampshire to try to answer that question -- sitting down with 12 people professing to support the Donald in 2016. The entirety of the focus group -- or at least the part Bloomberg has released today -- is worth watching. But one comment -- from a woman named Jane -- stood out to me. Here it is:

He's like one of us. He may be a millionaire ... but beside the money issue he's still in tune with what everyone is wanting.

WHAT.

DOUBLE WHAT.

Donald J. Trump has been called many things in his decades-long run as a public figure. I am betting that "one of us" is not one of them. This is, after all, someone who at every turn professes how wealthy he is ($10 billion!!), how smart he is ("really smart&quot and who lives a life -- married to a supermodel, star of his own reality TV show (until recently) -- that couldn't be further from the everyday life of the average person in the U.S.

And yet, despite all of the evidence of Trump's not-like-us-ness, he has quite clearly tapped into a populist message that plenty of people -- Jane from New Hampshire included -- are responding to. That such a populist strain exists in American political life is no surprise. That Donald Trump is, at least at the moment, the chosen vessel for that populist fervor is stunning.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/07/30/the-single-most-amazing-sentence-from-a-focus-group-of-trump-supporters/

[Hoyt]

1. Yeah, he's a callous, racist, gun toting, intimidating blow-hard ass. He's just like them.

[arcane1]

2. There seems to be an unspoken myth that Trump is somehow a self-made man

I'd be interested to know how many of his supporters think he started from scratch.

[Yavin4]

3. "He's like one of us." Translation: He's White and understands the privileges that come with that.

It's that damn simple.

[treestar]

4. There's a woman who might rival Palin

in idiocy.