You mean culture is how people respond to circumstances?
Based on their worldview?
And the American response to 24 years of the Clinton/Bush/Obama cabal was a united victory (through means of the electoral college which is a legal, not a cultural, structure) of traditional American culture over empty, pretentious elitism?
Circumstances build the worldview. Just look at how penny pinching Depression survivors all turned out.
Trump didn’t get 50%, not exactly a united victory of anything. And certainly not over pretentious elitism if you’ve ever bothered to look at his homes.