'They should be scared, they should feel insecure, they should be unhappy with their government'

Many Americans are hurting. They feel left behind by globalization and automation. They feel "scared" and "insecure."
These have all been recurring themes over the past few weeks, in the run-up to and in the aftermath of the shock election of Donald Trump as president. And in the postelection analysis, it has becoming increasingly clear that the US is more divided than many people had realized.
With that in mind, we set out to examine the state of the US consumer using recent research from the F