>>The political intelligentsia in the US has never been more disconnected from reality as the electorate sees it.
Which is another reason why Trump will win: everything that comes out of his mouth- including mistakes- is something the electorate might hear in real life. IOW he's not one of the grandees in the palace who think the sillies should eat cake if they don't have bread.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
