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I have a number of issues with the article, which I read in an earlier iteration. The overt sexism is fun but not particularly true or helpful.
Progressives are most effective when out of power and throwing bombs at those in power. Since it is not actually ideological so much as it is purely left wing political it resembles a war machine more than a political party. Progressives are best at breaking things and killing, even when in power.
Obama will be remembered for his attacks on traditional American values - family, culture, religion - and not on building anything at all. Even his vaunted medical program had more to do with destroying the greatest medical system in the history of the world than it did making those services available to the masses.
Hillary, for her admirers, was all about vagina politics. She has nothing constructive to offer. It is especially ironic that the only smear that half way landed on Trump was a private boast between boys about their sexual exploits. Ironic because Trump boasted of grabbing the very essence of the Clinton candidacy.
The article never quite breaks from its insistence upon identity politics as the sole means of achieving a plurality. It overlooks entirely the most basic element of Trump’s campaign, his appeal to basic American values. His was not an appeal to a group or a class but to an idea, a way of life, and a set of principles that is at the core of what it means to be an American.
Clinton kept yammering away about “American Values” but she never described them and showed an indifference to their more specific application. (free enterprise, religious values, family in the strictest sense, brotherhood, and unity) Trump was all over these specifics.
The article is at best a half hearted attempt to acknowledge Trump’s political genius while not giving away the leftist farm.