job/class identity, etc.


Obviously people take it too far.


For Obama, since Obama was Black (and most Black people really didn't expect Obama to "cater" too much to Black people) I don't think many people saw "looking up to" Obama as part of their "identity" like struggling whites DEFINITELY look to Trump for their identity. (Obviously, white Democrats didn't think voting for Obama was making them Obama-identified people, for racial reasons - they saw Obama as working for them/serving them - not shaping their "identity").