None of this is new. All of this was known in the days following the 2016 election. Democrats didn't care, they still don't. They need someone to blame for Clinton's defeat. Who better than the most marginalized group in the country?

The article does admit that 60% of white workers voted for Trump. It then proceeds to imply that this is nothing but a continuation of a voting pattern that has gone on for many years. But that, in turn, implies that Trump is just a continuation of what's been happening in the Republican Party for many years. Of course, there are elements of the past Republican Party in "Trumpism", but to fail to see a sharp break really is a failure to see what's happening in the US (and the world, in fact). This, then, implies a sharp shift in the thinking, the consciousness, of his supporters, including white workers. Not that it's something completely new or different, but that elements of the consciousness that were deeply buried have come to the foreground and are dominant now.