Pundits and politicians miss a very important reason for why people support Trump
Pain. Since the latter years of Bush and all the Obama years the middle class has taken big hits financially and many have never recovered. In 2007 I lost my job as an analyst with IBM. It was gift wrapped and sent overseas to India and Brazil. I spent a year training the people who got my job. Not only did I lose my job, but from 2006 - to now, probably a minimum of 50k other IBMers lost their jobs. Politicians, pundits and other elites don't have a clue to how the American spirit has been damaged due to these times. In many regards Jeb Bush is not the only 'happy
clueless turtle.' If you will indulge me, the following link is a blog article I wrote in 2011-2012 trying to describe life as a
used-to-have. Perhaps it can shed some light on why Trump reasonates. "
clueless elites"