was not quite governor yet, i m not a major figure, she clicked with people because somebody called her and her fellow denizen s of the valley, valley trash. it was an early version of the deplorables. and she wore that as a badge of honor. not as something like, how dare you say this about me? they appropriated. and they took this as a badge of honor. and i worked for them just like it did with trump supporters because they felt as if the mainstream republican party was looking down on them and not representing them. and the house would ultimately trump s and. trumpism is not an ideology, there are no fixed policies, it is about making people believe that a set of elites look down on them. it s very populist, as you know,
thing she tapped into that has become so definitional for a lot of the republican party. that s exactly right, chris. and that was her appeal in alaska. even far back as 2004, when she was not quite governor yet, i m not a major figure, she clicked with people because somebody called her and her fellow denizen s of the valley, valley trash. it was an early version of the deplorables. and she wore that as a badge of honor. not as something like, how dare you say this about me? they appropriated. and they took this as a badge of honor. and i worked for them just like it did with trump supporters because they felt as if the mainstream republican party was looking down on them and not representing them.