As I travel around the area and see all of the Trump signs in front of conservative neighbors' homes

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18. You're seeing the "revolt of the rubes"

The comparative political abilities of Clinton and Trump are not driving this sentiment. As far as I can tell, the emotion that is at work has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with the ongoing elimination of the middle class.

The term "revolt of the rubes" was apparently coined by David Stockman in this article from a couple of days ago:

It Won’t Be Long Now—-The End Game Of Central Banking Is Nigh

I call this insurrection the “revolt of the rubes” in Flyover America.

This uprising against the rule of the financial and political elites has counterparts abroad among those who voted for Brexit in the UK, against Merkel in the recent German elections in her home state, and among the growing tide of anti-Brussels sentiment reflected in polls throughout the EC.

Needless to say, the political upheaval now underway is largely an inchoate reaction to the policy failures and arrogant pretensions of the establishment rulers. Like Donald Trump himself, it does not reflect a coherent programmatic alternative.

He represents a raw insurgency of attack, derision, impertinence and repudiation.

People who are trying to shape the outcome of this election using (only) accepted political criteria are totally missing the deeper message of Trump's otherwise inexplicable popularity.