David Quinn: Irish voters share many of the same concerns as Donald Trump’s much-maligned MAGA crowd

When they are not being actively hated and denounced as “bigots”, Donald Trump voters are condescended to, or at best treated as curious anthropological specimens who academics must do their best to try and understand — the way they might a lost tribe, or maybe supporters of one of our own rural Independents. A poll in this newspaper last week suggested only 16pc of Irish people would back Trump if they had a vote in the US presidential election..