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ON A building site outside Youngstown, Ohio, a crowd of workmen are labouring through drizzle to get a nursing home finished on schedule. None is eager to talk politics with a nosy reporter. But your correspondent’s guide is Rocco DiGennaro, boss of the Local 125 construction-workers union to which they belong, and he urges them to speak freely.

“I’m not voting for the c**t. Why? Because she’s a no good fucking c**t!” says Paul, a carpenter, and no fan of Hillary Clinton. “I’m voting for Trump.” There are two dozen builders and joiners on the site, all middle-aged white men, and most say much the same. “She pisses me off,” says Don, a cement-mixer. “I’d be interested to see what a non-politician can do.” “I don’t trust that broad with my guns,” says Clyde, another cement man. “Since I’ve been voting, it’s always been Clinton or Bush; I want a different name,” says Rob, the site superintendent.

On the face of it, this is irrational. The men’s union membership brings privileges, including pay a third higher than their non-unionised colleagues make, which...Continue reading

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