PITTSBURGH—Walking out of the Allegheny County Republican election night event at a local luxury hotel, the young men waiting to valet my car got into a discussion with me about the just-announced election results.
All four men were in their 30s. Two were white, one was black, and the other Hispanic. As I traditionally do, I asked them how they voted, and they all answered with President-elect Donald Trump.
The conservative populist coalition was always right in front of reporters and experts in working-class neighborhoods, suburbs, and cities. If only they had not treated those voters as either racists, fascists, misogynists, garbage, stupid, or outliers to their narrative of what Americans should look like.
These voters were directly observable. I saw them, heard them, and reported that welders, cosmetologists, barbers, and mechanics, as well as doctors, lawyers,…
