Sadly typical of the out of touch intelligentsia, this piece ignores the obvious.  Trump supporters, like the supporters of Nigel Farage, Geert Wilders, Nicola Sturgeon and Marine Le Pen are using their votes as a primal scream against the status quo.
.
They have been dismissed as racist and ignorant because the elites refuse to recognize that fact that they have been marginalized during the Obama administration:  "And it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations," Obama said.
.
The peasants are lighting their torches and reaching for their pitchforks...The are madder than hell and they won't take it any more.