When Christine'a hears Donald J. Trump making a pitch to «the African - Americans» who he believes live in
unrelieved squalor, she responds with disgust: «You have no idea how we live.»
An enormous and
unrelieved strain must have been set up when his inherited Jewishness, containing elements of
squalor, mustiness and warmth as well as elements of religious and moral grain, confronted the brightness, the gaiety, the carefree atmosphere of the Western capital.