We certainly have a disconnect, as you saying, I am “not grounded in their class or privilege” hits my ears the same way as “drain the swamp” - a phrase many people use without giving any details on what the hell they intend it to mean.
I grew up in a working class/lower middle class family. One car. Neither my father or mother were college graduates. My privileged ass worked as a union laborer, a security guard, a cashier in a liquor store, a ditch digger, a non-union Mason’s helper, and a poor college student who had to work at the worst job invented by man - a shelf reader at the UF library. And by that I mean, you go down rows of books sorted by the Dewey decimal system and put “9.312 A” between “9.301 FG” and “9.322 H”. IOW, mind numbing boredom Hell on earth.
I’ve also spent 30 years representing plaintiffs in a city and state filled with extremely poor people, arguing cases to juries filled with people who are blue collar folks or poorer - who probably think I’m some elite sum- bitch just because I have a law degree. The essence of my job description is to attempt to successfully relate to those people.
To your point, there is a large category of people who didn’t vote at all. And that same category has never voted much, so apparently there is no politician in the history of America in any party with any ideology that they relate to. (True, Trump did excite some of the non-voters to vote for him. Because, I guess, they did not think billionaire Trump was part of a privileged class).
I know lots of lawyers and judges who are Trump fans. They share a hell of a lot in common with the single wide trailer Trump fans. And what those lawyers and judges share has nothing to do with not voting blue because they had a sense they could not relate to the Democrats because of privilege or class. Many of those lawyer/judge Trump fans were born with a silver KKK spoon in their mouth, so your class theory and being relatable is not meshing with my life experience. My life experience says they all share Trump‘s dislike for anyone who doesn’t fit their idea of the type of person your kind should hang with. They share the hope that Trump will make the lives of those black brown gay Muslim atheist trans people worse. Lastly, they also share the hope of getting richer under Trump.
You say I missed the point about class and privilege?
Please DO tell me about the privilege and class problem with some detail because I am honestly not getting what you’re trying to sell.