Rich Lowry: Working Class Zeros

We live in the age of working-class discontent, which, if it wasn't obvious before, has been made plain by the passions roiling 2016 presidential politics.

The media's preferred description of the average Republican voter has often been "the angry white male." This was crudely simplistic and meant to be pejorative. If the press wants to update the descriptor, it should refer to "the despairing white male." Or more accurately, the despairing white working class.

White working-class life in America has been in a slow-motion disintegration for decades, and it shows. The white working class is an...