Opinion: Trump is no longer even pretending to champion the working class

FILE — In a multiple exposure image, former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, during a CNN town hall event on May 10, 2023. Trump might once have shared working-class resentments against elites in business and finance, but only because he felt disrespected by them, Michelle Goldberg writes. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)

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By Michelle Goldberg | The New York Times