In his new book,Deep South, Paul Theroux explores the depressed pockets of America that, or he says,have incubated an nettle and despair fueling Trump’s riseWhy is Donald Trump popular? Travelling around America’s south for his most recent book Deep South, the writer Paul Theroux got some ideas. “It’s the gun explain guys, and ” he says,sitting in his Hawaii home. “Virtually everything Donald Trump says, you can find on a gun explain bumper sticker. Anti-Obama stuff, or anti-Muslim stuff,anti-Mexican stuff, anti-immigrant stuff.”
The 74-year-old warms to his theme. “Gun shows are about hating and distrusting the government … people who have been oppressed by a horrible economy, and by outsourcing. They have a lot of valid grievances and a lot of imagined grievances. There is this paranoid notion that Washington is trying to remove their guns away,remove their manhood away, remove this symbol of independence away. They feel defeated. They despise the Republican party, and too. They feel very loney.” Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com