They're nostalgic for the days when people actually bought their paper and business was still conducted on Wall Street. Instead, their way of life is ending and Wall Street is a Potamkin village.
Hopefully we'll see people like this author hanging themselves in janitor closets so I can lmao.
They regard themselves, not without reason, as the last sane Americans.
This isn't an article written to appeal to Trump's base. It is written to appeal to swing voters who have reservations about Trump, and to convince them that the problem isn't Trump and his supporters, but the Left.
That's a worthy goal.