The angry White populist who paved the way for Trump

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Among American politicians, Wallace would become, according to historian Dan T. Carter, “the most influential loser” of the 20th century. His enduring relevance, Carter said, lies in his discovery of the “underground stream” of modern American politics. Wallace tapped a current of grievance and barely muffled racism that would later propel the rise of another combative populist: Donald Trump.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/hist...ace-trump-white-anger/?itid=hp-top-table-main
 
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Among American politicians, Wallace would become, according to historian Dan T. Carter, “the most influential loser” of the 20th century. His enduring relevance, Carter said, lies in his discovery of the “underground stream” of modern American politics. Wallace tapped a current of grievance and barely muffled racism that would later propel the rise of another combative populist: Donald Trump.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/hist...ace-trump-white-anger/?itid=hp-top-table-main
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George Wallace was one of the most vile politicians to disgrace this nation. #TRE45ON belongs on the same shelf.
 
Kundrat, a White retiree from the U.S. Postal Service, said he knows little about the Black and Latino families that have moved into his longtime neighborhood in north Laurel. And he is a minority in another sense: A Trump supporter in an area where nearly 9 in 10 voters went for Biden in 2020.

“He stood for the country,” Kundrat said of Trump. “If you’re Christian, God’s first, then family, then country.”

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