Read it but don’t agree. It sums up what a buffoon the current president is, his cohorts and in the destruction he has wrought, but it ends on a nihilistic note. What is so profound?
He sees both sides, and that's not common nowadays (if it ever was).
He's more anti-Trump than people think (and maybe more condescending about Trump's supporters), but he does understand Trump's appeal and even feels some of that allure himself.
I think he's got something of H.L. Mencken's spirit (without Mencken's stylistic extravagances). You can see Mencken's cynicism and distrust of politicians and their promises in the article, but VDH is turning Mencken's cynicism back on elites, rather than on average Americans (though there is some bite in his description of the Trump phenomenon).