Very smart. Thanks.

It’s hard to be a truth teller.

Here’s another angle of attack on this: to the vast majority of the Trump supporters, race isn’t even remotely an issue in this campaign. It’s about dignity (as you point out). Yet, whenever they attempt to gather some political power they are are immediately tagged as racists and unjustly shamed (as in: why would poor whites ever gather together to do anything but lynch someone?). That’s probably why they are supporting a teflon candidate.