>>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/09/opinion/despair-american-style.html
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>>Here's one man's idea of what's behind the Trump surge.
>>Actually it's also behind Bernie's surge, the Tea Party and the Occupy movement.
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>It is need for genuine change actually.
>Obama's campaign team realized this 8 years ago and packaged it into very successful campaign.
>Obama then rode that wave straight to an easy victory. However he failed miserably in delivering almost any of it.
>I mean real change. (Except delivering on health care bill)
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>So the same wave is still there (and got bigger). Question is who is going to ride it at the end.
>I wish it will be someone like Bernie Sanders (hence Corbyn moment in UK) but I highly doubt.
>(Washington will never let that slip in US)
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>More likely it will be heavily whitewashed & microwaved Hillary {g}
>Hope I am wrong. (As I was wrong believing that Obama was real deal)

I regret to say that I agree about Obama's failure to deliver on most of his promises.
In fact, Nancy Pelosi actually got the Health Care bill passed, not Obama.
His biggest failure was in not delivering on the phrase that actually got him the nomination...
"There are no blue states or red states .. only the United States."
If anything, the country is more divided than it was in 2008, so he gets F minus on that score.

As Krugman points out, is that no one has any serious ideas policy ideas about these disenfranchised Middle Americans. That's at the root of the anger. No one really cares about them.