C'mon, Biden and Tweety are both old white guys, the heart of Trump's gang. Sure, Biden is supporting Hillary. I can believe he dislikes Trump. His political world view, though, is still seen through the lens of his boyhood in scrappy Scranton, PA. A boyhood lived during the 1940s and 1950s when white men reigned supreme.

It is long past time to end the mythologizing of and yearning for the "white working class," the Reagan Democrats. These are not people who left the Democratic Party because of economics. They left the party because they hated the new world in which people of color and women and teh gays were demanding, and getting bit by bit, a share of the American pie.

If the Democrats have lost some members of the white working class, it relates more to the fact that Democrats have not pandered to scapegoating, nor to exploitation, as is being done by Republicans with the churning out of fear of the other and race-baiting.

With the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, some whites felt that Democrats were abandoning them in favor of "those people."   And, subsequently proceeded to vote against their economic interests. They have been conned but it is hard to admit.

  Of course, loss of manufacturing jobs, the weakening of unions, are a part of the whole, but these factors came after perceptions of welfare queens getting free stuff with their tax dollars, immigrants taking away their good jobs, new skill requirements leaving them out in the cold (not a situation unique to while working class)--all exploited successfully by Republicans over the years, epitomized by the "tell it as it is" Trump. Guns, gays, and god are just icing for the cake.

IIRC Obama didn't exactly do too well with white working class voters but now since it's Hillary i guess it's a completely different story with these bozos.

As white liberals, we still succumb to it on occasion ourselves, yet we've learned to recognize it. We know who these people are. Many of them are members of our own families, and friends of ours. They're the ones who insist that they're not racist or prejudiced, "BUT":

• "It's not fair that we should have to account and pay for what our parents, grandparents and ancestors did 25, 50 or 200 years ago;"

• "People of color need to realize that racism really ended in the 1960s, and they now have the exact same opportunities for success as we do as their white neighbors;"

• "White people are now victims of reverse discrimination;" and

• "People of color should stop whining and pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, same as we did."

Whatever financial struggles we face are the direct result of socio-economic class disparities which have been imposed upon us all by the wealthy, who've effectively gamed the system to their own personal advantage, and are not due to welfare cheats and freeloaders of color who've somehow done likewise.

to the issue. either Biden & Matthews have been living in a media vacuum, or are just being intentionally obtuse. the whole "unskilled white male economic anxiety" schtick was always a media creation, not representative of the reality on the ground.

it turns out that Trump supporters have an average income of $72,000, not rich, but nowhere near poor by any stretch. these are the people (mostly white, mostly male, mostly evangelical Christian) who claim that Trump "says what we're thinking.". and what he's saying is that all their problems, real and/or perceived, are some "mysterious" other's fault: non-white people. and his core eats it up.

the only reason the republican establishment is aghast, is because Trump says the "quiet" things out loud.