How does Trump get away with it? Easy. He demonizes minorities. In 1660's Virginia you had indentured Englishmen, Irishmen, Africans and Native Americans all toiling away side by side. That was until nine of them decided to rebel against the rich elites in 1663. They were betrayed by a servant named Birkenhead who was rewarded with freedom while the rest were either incarcerated or hanged. The uprising scared the rich elites so much until they devised a plan to prevent future hostile alliances, namely, they created "white privilege." First they outlawed miscegenation in 1691 and then gave poor whites a promotion and every African a demotion. That is, indentured servitude was replaced with perpetual slavery for Africans and any other non-African who chose to socialize with them. This immediately drove a wedge between blacks and whites that continue to this day. Poor whites prefer to be associated with the rich elites than black people. Trump is just exploiting the "Birkenhead" strategy from centuries ago. 'It doesn't matter how bad you got it; you're one of us -- not one of them!'