Economics played a role, but not by motivating people to vote Trump; that was overwhelmingly based in bigotry.
Where economics played a role is in discouraging support for Clinton. The working class is increasingly giving up on the Democratic party, for understandable reasons: they’ve been screwing the working class for decades.
But that doesn’t alter the facts that the base of Trump’s support is in the middle class (the working class were the only economic group that didn’t vote majority Trump), and that prejudice was the major factor driving their vote. As it is every year.
