This entire subthread is based around the premise of "they're too stupid/racist to know what's good for them".

Whether or not the specific phrase 'white trash' is said or not said doesn't matter. It could be 'clinging to guns and religion', could be 'deplorables', etc.

Racism totally does exist among the demographic we're talking about but it's not the only motivator anyone ever has.

I said nothing about him calling them “white trash”. I was quoting the parent. I said that Democrats claimed that rural America only cares about “guns and the Bible”. A slight misquote from memory. But it wasn’t an “internet Rando” that expressed that sentiment like you claimed.

Trump can afford to say “much worse” just like republicans in the past could afford to use the “Southern Strategy” and dog whistle to their constituents.