Victor Davis Hanson: The Metaphysics of Trump

NRO ^ | Victor Davis Hanson

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How a brutal Manhattan developer, who thrived on self-centered controversy and even scandal, proved singularly empathetic to millions of the forgotten is apparently still not fully understood.

I don't think it's particularly difficult. He simply filled an enormous political vacuum that was left by the establishment of both parties abandoning the middle-class voters:

Hillary (et al): The United States is inherently racist, sexist, and evil, must be punished, and the oppressors need to shut up and let us redistribute their wealth to the more deserving.

Trump: America is inherently great, has been sold out by both parties as well as the media, and I'm going to make America great again.

That is a rock-simple message thoroughly validated by the blatant establishment machinations that put Hillary in place and tried, heaven help us all, to place Yeb! Bush in opposition if such it may be called. It was similarly validated by outrageously biased behavior by nearly all of the media covering both primaries and the general election. Simplified still further, Trump convinced the public that he loves America, and virtually all of his opponents and the media convinced us that they don't. That's a winning political formula. In fact, it did.