“Do you feel like political leaders in Washington look down on people like you,” the pollsters asked, “or don’t you feel that way?”Most Americans, 55 percent of them, feel that way. Wealthier Americans — here meaning those with incomes of $50,000 a year or more — were much less likely to say they felt looked-down-upon than were lower-income Americans. Fox’s poll shows that whites are slightly less likely to say that they feel looked-down-upon than nonwhites — 54 percent to 57 percent, not a statistically significant difference. Another possibility is that Trump supporters (57 percent of whom say they feel looked-down-upon) are also in part reflecting the refrain they’ve heard from their president so often. Yes, there’s that gap between lower- and higher-income Americans, but it’s still the case that most Americans see political leaders as precisely the sorts of elites that Trump maligned.

Source: Washington Post April 26, 2018 16:24 UTC