http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/09/why-voters-elected-president-donald-j-trump-and-why-they-ll-regret-it.html
"Why Trump Won
"Trump won because many millions of Americans, having endured decades of working more while getting deeper in debt, said 'enough.'
"From 1967, when Lyndon Johnson was president, to 2014, the average income of the vast majority of Americans rose by only $328 to $33,068.
"That’s just 1 percent above inflation after 47 years and this income stagnation applies, statistically, to the 90 percent, everyone who made less than $121,000 in 2014.
"Over the same years, incomes among the top tenth of 1 percent grew so much—and tax laws were so generous to them—that many enjoy multiple mansions and a few own his-and-her private jets."
The above sentiments were written last November 9th; their author has known Trump since 1988, and was one of the first national "experts" to concede Trump had a chance to win the Republican nomination in June of 2015.
"A scene from
The American President, the 1995 Aaron Sorkin film about a widower in the White House running against a right-wing demagogue is instructive.
"Michael J. Fox played an aide who told the president, played by Michael Douglas, that 'in the absence of genuine leadership' the people will 'listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They’re so thirsty for it they’ll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there’s no water, they’ll drink the sand.'”
"Before long yesterday’s voters will realize that they just drank sand."