Excellent analysis.

I particularly like that you noted that people don't always vote their own personal self-interest, but that of their family and friends. They look around and see that even if they are ok, their community isn't.

" They voted for him chiefly because they feel he is the only political leader who doesn’t simply dismiss their fears and anxieties as misguided and doesn’t tell them condescendingly that their problems would disappear if they got a university degree or if the government were to institute a guaranteed annual income and basically write them off as contributing members of society.

In many parts of American society, there is a pervasive feeling that ordinary people are being made to pay the price of the ideals of the elites. "

Exactly. The new "let them eat cake!" Plus ça change...