The withdrawal of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) from the Republican presidential primary has turned the race into a two-person contest that perfectly encapsulates the class civil war within the Republican Party.

When Donald Trump rode down the escalator in 2015 to announce his ultimately successful candidacy for president, he shined a light on a brewing civil war in the party between less educated working-class voters who had recently abandoned the Democratic Party and the historically corporate-friendly and more educated Republicans that had dominated that party for decades.

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