Fox's Krauthammer: “The One Constituency In The Country That Was Being Economically Crushed And Kind Of Socially Demoted Was The White Working Class” 

Charles Krauthammer: “They Were Excluded In That Sense”

From the November 14 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor

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BILL O'REILLY (HOST): At the beginning of the program and I want to get your opinion on this in the Talking Points, I said that one of the reasons that Trump won was that more than 60 million Americans did not feel included in the Obama Administration's policies. And it's ironic because the protesters now going oh, we're afraid that we're not going to have inclusion anymore and they don't even know that half the country wasn't included in the first place. Am I crazy? 

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: No I think -- look, everybody has their own, left and right have different definitions of inclusion. What happened was this huge constituency, the white working class, in particular, the ones who delivered to him the three states, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan that put him over the top. Traditionally Democratic. This white working class felt excluded. 

O'REILLY: Yes

KRAUTHAMMER: They felt that the Democrats are running a country with favoritism, affirmative action here. Political correctness there. Sort of controlling speech, controlling favors, all for minorities, which you can argue was justified in some cases because of historical discrimination, et cetera. But nonetheless, the one constituency in the country that was being economically crushed and kind of socially demoted was the white working class and that was the appeal of Trump. That's how he won. So in a sense, they were excluded in that sense. 

Previously

O'Reilly: “Billionaire” Donald Trump Is “A Blue Collar Guy”

Fox Host: “It's Hard To Get Rich And Stay Rich, And I Think Donald Trump Is Proof Of That”