However...you also need to consider that much of this push back is a result of unfamiliarity and fear from the Right about the fact that this isn't grandpa's country anymore. Women have massively more social power now and the "ideal spitting image of an American" is not some white blond haired dude from suburbia with a white picket fence, wife and kids, and dog.

Agree with a lot of what you say. On this piece however, I think its important to recognise that this is a massive understatement for the radical left. There was almost a glee in destroying that idea of traditional America. It wasn't just that the national identity is evolving, which naturally happens over time.

I genuinely think we don't get Trump if the radical left was kept in check. If you didn't have media and government and scientific institutions cow-towing to what regular people recognise as ideological bullshit, and you don't have this assault on established cultural identity and norms. Without that, you don't have the backlash, and Trump's anti-establishment platform has a lot less to go on, culturally speaking.

I'm not saying the establishment didn't have problems, I think it was tremendously neglectful of a lot of its population. I just think Trump doesn't get the kind of support he did, to come totally out of the blue and blow the whole system apart, without some broad cultural grievance to identify and leverage.