Now that things have normalized a little and she’s gotten a little better educated about politics, she is channeling a very different kind of normal-person reaction. But at the end of the day, she is not coming from an elite point of view. She crystallizes a sense among those demographics that this guy is just fundamentally unfit, that this is just a failure. He always connected with what Marxists would call the petit bourgeoisie—the small business owner types, because they actually mistakenly saw themselves in him. But they therefore thought that he would at least have their best interests in mind.

Source: CNN April 10, 2026 14:51 UTC