Michael Barone: Are Trump voters really victims?

Published April 3, 2016 9:00pm ET



What you hear when you listen to many fervent supporters of Donald Trump is that they are victims. Victims of globalization and trade agreements that have sent their jobs to Mexico or China. Victims of competition from illegal immigrants from Mexico willing to work for starvation wages. Victims of a Republican party establishment that promised to get rid of lots of things they don’t like and then failed to deliver.

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