The rise of outsiders likely has been helped by the rise in inequality not so much between whites and non whites but between poor and the non poor combined with the tonedeafness of major candidates who tend to lump poor whites with &quot;rich white men&quot; and an emphasis on men.<p>White police officers are the devil and by extension poor whites are the devil [but we see that non white officers engage in similar behavior]  The notion that all Hispanics have Mexican ancestry and all want to be addressed in Spanish or that all blacks identify with Sharpton politics.<p>People call Trump a populist and at times racist, they have said the same thing of Sanders not so much for what he says but because of who follows his candidacy [the demographics].<p>It looks like there are people who are rebelling against some of the divisiveness of identify politics and misguidedly people are labeling these people pejoratively as being a certain kind of people [racists, misogynists, xenophobes, uneducated, poor, etc.] when most likely they are simply rebelling against traditional politics where they have been simply useful but not tended to.<p>For establishment candidates it&#x27;ll be tough to balance efforts to underscore minorities in a major way without excluding or at the expense of browbeating majorities because unfortunately they are assuming a zero sum game even while saying otherwise.