# What I don’t understand is why people who aren’t members of the privileged classes support Trump and his agenda **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [July 17, 2024, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-don-t-understand-is-why-people-who-aren-t-members-of-the-privileged-classes-support-trump-and-his-agenda/1004386 "2024-07-17T16:09:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 18
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-don-t-understand-is-why-people-who-aren-t-members-of-the-privileged-classes-support-trump-and-his-agenda/1004386/18 "2024-07-17T16:59:28Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Policies is only a small part of it. The fact that he expresses anger against the same people they express anger against is a much bigger part of it, along with making them feel like they’re spoken for. This post from a similar thread comes to mind: > [@Why do Republicans think a convicted felon, and a rapist should be President?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-republicans-think-a-convicted-felon-and-a-rapist-should-be-president/1004035/28): > > Or, as commenter Davis X. Machina phrased it: “The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of who will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.” --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-don-t-understand-is-why-people-who-aren-t-members-of-the-privileged-classes-support-trump-and-his-agenda/1004386)._