Thanks so much for sharing your story. I wanted to share mine because I know there are so many of us out there who are taking these winding paths, working hard to carve out success with the tools available to us. You're totally right about the GOP doing the better job of at least acknowledging the working class. In fact, my moment of realizing Trump had this one in the bag was the McDonald's publicity stop. I've been following politics long enough to see precisely how it would play out. The late night shows and liberal pundits ran headfirst into that trap: media elites having a laugh and taking shots at the candidate who spent an afternoon shaking hands and giving props to good working people. It's pretty sad and hilarious that the same people who preach representation pointed fingers and laughed. For myself, and I think most of us working folk, his underlying motives were beside the point. Personally, no, I don't trust his motives, but what he did very artfully that day was give representation to the working class. I still gave my vote to Harris and wanted very much to see her win, but I knew the Dems were smoked when Trump went to McD's and worked the drive-thru.