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Trump voters are matched by Sanders supporters—who together form a majority of all Americans—in believing there is no real difference between the two parties, that both are gripped by professional politicos and special interests that are choking off the foundations of democracy.

The establishment get it all right, they just don't want to believe it.

Now, a "professional focus group moderator" is a fellow trained to drill down into the specifics - why are you angry? What is it you're angry about? Let me list a few:

1. A government so corrupt that mere membership guarantees a lifetime of plenitude, whether one is elected into it or merely named into it;

2. A government that is unaccountable for its decisions;

3. A government that has moved systematically from representation to leadership to ruling to dictatorship;

4. A government that has arrogated to itself the role of social reform and regards the military and the people it supposedly represents as clay to be molded into a better progressive vision;

5. A government that uses its own usurped power to oppress and criminalize dissent;

6. A government whose official position is that the majority of its citizens are stupid, racist, too Christian, too ecologically irresponsible, too unenlightened, and too stupid to understand that they need a firm ruling hand over them - guess whose?

7. A government that is venal, acquisitive, wasteful, contemptuous, and absolutely unapologetic.

That's a short and very incomplete list. Any marginally competent "professional focus group moderator" could enumerate it in a half hour from even a hostile and uncooperative group. If the author hasn't, he hasn't tried.