You cannot purge Americans of ideals

To be a worker is not to belong to a class, but is just a step on the way to the American dream. I wonder if that illusion has helped to fertilize Trumpism, writes Thomas Bredsdorff, who for a period lived in the USA with his family.

There are certainly workers in the United States, but there is no working class as such in the United States, believes the world-renowned linguist Noam Chomsky. An American worker sees himself as someone who is on his way up the ladder in the country where anyone can become anything. Photo: Rebecca Cook/Ritzau Scanpix

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Source: politiken.dk

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