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Trump’s departure will not end the grievances of the 74 million Americans who voted for him, especially working-class whites. Their deep dissatisfaction – why else would they support someone like Trump? – needs to be understood and addressed if we are to reunite as a country. Three recent books, two by academics and one by a journalist, demonstrate that, while Trump exploited white working-class grievances, they were at least in part a response to the arrogance of the privileged white elite.    ADVERTISEMENT In “White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America,” Joan C. Williams, a law professor at the U.C. Hastings College of the Law, argues that educated well-off whites share blame for the Trump phenomenon. Unwilling to acknowledge their own racism, these privileged whites “comfort themselves” by blaming racism on “other-class whites,” such as Trump supporters, who resent that charge. Privileged whites also ignore the economic challenges fac

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