Lets say you have this guy named Dan. Dan is a high school graduate,

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Lets say you have this guy named Dan. Dan is a high school graduate, blue collar, uneducated, and worked as a trucker driver. Dan's life is pretty crappy. His job is either being automated or being sent overseas, his lack of education and lack of ability to become educated prevents him from finding new work that pays similar. He has a mortgage, healthcare, wife and kids, car payment, etc.
But atleast prior to 2008 he could pride himself in saying he was a "real american". He was the red blooded protector of Truth, Justice, and the American Way (tm)!
But then came Obama. A half black, half white educated, charismatic, leader. To them he was an other for the obvious reasons, but for another. He had no association with the midwestern blue collar world that so many politicians had catered to for years, and that was what broke them.
They found out that not only are their non-white, non-christian, non-uneducated, people in the country, but there is a LOT of them, and they have power now.
This is why Republican party is in a civil war of being either the party of Reagan or the Illiberal party. These uneducated white blue collar workers have been told all their lives THEY are real America,not the hispanics,not the blacks,not the jews, and definitely not the non-christians. Well, now they are willing to do anything to stand against liberals.
They believe liberalism is worse than ISIS, worse than NK, worse than our greatest enemy, Russia. Ironic because liberalism is what makes American so strong and allows everything we've ever done to have happened. Here's where the funny business happens though:
What is Russia? A white, overly christian,uneducated,blue collar country who hates Obama/Hillary and hates liberalism (for other reasons but still). So guess what?You hear a lot from these people "Why are we enemies with Russia? We should work together!"
Then you remind them that Russia beats gay people in the streets and isn't a free nation, but they are willing to handwave that