• davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Plenty of petit bourgeois suburbanites and urbanites voted for this, too.

    Trumpism: It’s Coming From the Suburbs

    But scapegoating poor whites keeps the conversation away from fascism’s real base: the petite bourgeoisie. This is a piece of jargon used mostly by Marxists to denote small-property owners, whose nearest equivalents these days may be the “upper middle class” or “small-business owners.”

    • TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      Yea. I kinda call the burns shithole small town USA, as well. Of course every spectrum voted for him but I drove through Arkansas for the eclipse and it was horrific.