From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield.

This is becoming violent. There is pushing and shoving going on inside this arena.

People are throwing objects, supporters, protesters, media.

It was simply rocking back and forth.

This week, after violent clashes between supporters and protesters forced the cancellation of a Trump

rally in Chicago, the GOP frontrunner's delegate lead continued to grow, and the media

continued to wonder, who are the people supporting him?

We saw a Confederate battle flag poster at another Trump rally.

It's a question, a curiosity that's long been dogging coverage.

The mainstream media attacking the Donald and anyone who votes for him,

like the New York Daily News, picturing Trump as a clown and calling his supporters mindless zombies. Close to 20% of voters who support Donald Trump don't support the Emancipation Proclamation.

They think Abraham Lincoln's decision to free enslaved Africans during the Civil War was the wrong thing to do.

So are they a mob of ignorant racists? No. One of the things fueling Trump's support is a feeling

by a lot of white working class Americans that things have changed too fast. They don't recognize

this country anymore. So they're the disaffected working class squeezed out of the economy by

globalism and increasingly marginalized by an influx of non-white

immigrants. Wait, no. Almost everyone we've talked to who switched over, who crossed over,

they said Trump, Trump, Trump, they want to change. They're tired of politics, as usual, Brian.

All right, Tony, something tells me you're on top of a big story there.

So they're an astute political cohort that has run out of patience with a political class

tainted by money biased toward privilege and welded to the status quo.

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