Trump's war on America's office elites

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : " The professions Trump is targeting are important ones.
56% : In the public imagination, the jobs Trump is going after aren't ones typically thought of as authentically American in the way, say, an autoworker or a coal miner is.
51% : It's intellectual labor, as opposed to physical labor.
48% : Trump has long channeled anti-elite sentiment for his political benefit -- it's a cornerstone of the MAGA message that helped propel him to the White House.
45% : " Trust in the professions Trump is targeting is in steep decline.
40% : "When it's conveyed as a story where Trump is the protagonist and the intelligentsia is the antagonist," Husser says, "then he's better able to capture his party and move a few independents.
38% : He has slashed federal spending for consultants and scientists.
34% : Some of them look down on Trump and his voters, or at least make them feel like they do.
29% : "The dominant political cleavage right now in this country is if you have a college education, you're much less likely to vote for Donald Trump or vote Republican," says Daniel Drezner, a political scientist at Tufts University.
29% : Trump is hardly the first political figure to decipher this code.
24% : Trump won't be able to wipe out brain-driven professions, but his agenda is designed to make the people in them uncomfortable -- and leverage social and cultural animosity against them to score political points.
21% : By taking aim at those seen as "elites," Trump is able to create a clear target for voters angry about what they view as a rigged system.

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