Neoliberalism and automation created huge gaps in income and culture. While the left pushes their “regressive left” critical theory laden agenda, the middle class sees their paychecks shrinking and their bridges collapsing. They see the American Dream dying in their dilapidated houses, praying for their kids to get off opiates. The left sees Le Pen and Trump voters as racist, when in reality they are angry that they can’t get a new car or take their kids on vacation, while paying three times Mitt Romney’s 9% effective tax rate. They want to burn the government down and start from scratch, or just push the clock back 30 years. It has become a war between not so much ideals, but a desire to maintain something resembling the status quo (neoliberals) and righteously indignant bad taste (deplorables).

Comey and Le Pen: Casualties of the War Between Neoliberal and Deplorable