There is no doubt that Trump is boorish and outrageous, I also believe that his genius was in spotting the huge numbers of people disaffected by the identity politics being pushed by the progressive political elite and its censorious nature.

His outrageous commentary poked the bear of the left leaning media and resulted in him getting more coverage than anyone else in spite of being outspent by more than 10:1 by Clinton, and their outrage only gained him a stronger following.

Paul Kelly (not a Trump fan) puts it very well:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/paul-kelly/donald-trumps-election-a-rejection-of-identity-politics/news-story/147b11c08b64702d3f9be1821416cb72

As Donald Trump’s new presidency surges across our politics, creating chaos and uncertainty, there is one element in his victory where most Australian politicians remain in ideological denial — the revolt against identity politics.

Trump, in effect, was given permission to win the election by the US progressive class despite his narcissism, his coarseness and his smashing of the orthodox bounds of political and policy behaviour.

In retrospect, the 2016 US election story is a grand joke — enough voters in Middle America decided to tolerate Trump’s juvenile viciousness because they felt the narcissism of prevailing closed-minded progressive ideology was no longer to be tolerated. In the end, the alternative was worse than Trump. Is this too difficult an idea to grasp?

During the Obama era the US underwent a cultural revolution. Fuelled by social activists on race, sex and gender issues and the ­decisive swing by younger people to social liberalism as a way of life, the Democratic Party embraced identity politics as a brand. It mirrored the values transformation that swept through many American institutions: the academy, media, arts, entertainment and much of the high income earning elite. But revolutions are only guaranteed to bring counter-­revolutions in their wake.

Dear Shadow Minister,

The Democrats lost the "unloseable" election
because they lost the white-working class and
pandered to elites. Hilary Clinton's campaign was
arrogant and out of touch. She acted as though she
had practically won before it even began. Her strategy
was short-sighted. The Democrats picked up affluent
votes but they lost poorer voters in greater numbers.
Working-class and blue collar whites either abstained
or voted for Trump. Hilary Clinton took them for
granted. No adds were run by Clinton in several
states including Michigan and Wisconsin. Whereas
Trump personally visited them. Big swings were
achieved in the groups the man targeted - such as
the less-educated whites and people in less
economic circumstances.

Clinton's campaign did not bother making an appeal to
working-class whites. Her glitzy-fund raisers did
not paint a picture of a woman connected to the
real suffering in the country. She came across as
someone who didn't care.

She did not listen to the legitimate grievances of the
voters and that cost her dearly. Trump on the other
hand promised change and to make "America Great Again."
How he will achieve that is a different question.
However, the American election should be a lesson for
the politicians in this country. Don't take anything
for granted. Listen to the voters.

Foxy,

The only voters that our pollies will listen to are the musicians and others at concerts, the ballet or the opera when they are given free tickets.
There are a few exceptions.

whether it be Trump or Clinton they are puppets that can be used to glorify God or deny Him. Trump is certainly making a far better fist of it by defunding funding the slaughter of the unborn unlike Clinton who would would use tax payer money to promote the slaughter of millions more unorn babies.

Foxy,

You got it in one. For 2016 the democrats became the greens.

Dearest Foxy,

As I understand it, Clinton didn't visit Wisconsin even once, a rust-belt state, heavily working-class, traditionally voting Democrat. Then she implies that they are 'deplorables'. Good one, Hilary.

It's interesting, given the emphasis on identity politics in the US, that she saw those 'deplorables' also in terms of having different identities - an entire 'basket' of them.

I look forward to the day when people recover from the inanity and insanity of identity politics and start to stick up for everybody's equal rights, when nobody is special, nobody is entitled to any more than anybody else because of some privileged victim status.

'Privileged victim status' - what is this fool saying ?!

Love always,

Joe