28-01-2018 06:00 via ocregister.com

A year into Trump’s peasant rebellion

A year into office, Donald Trump remains something of an unlikely figure: a self-promoting and well-heeled demagogue who leads a bedraggled coalition of piratical capitalists, southerners, and people from the has-been or never were towns of Middle America. His fiercest opponents largely come from the apex of our society: the tech oligarchy, a rabidly hostile press and the cultural and academic hegemons.
These sophisticated people see Trump as responding crudely to his sans-culottes base. To them
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