This should be alarming, right?

[eppie]

I still haven't understood why so many people voted for him and saw him as fighting against the elite.
Yes he isnt part of the intellectual elite but besides that he belongs to all other elites and he has shown time and time again he hates the poor and the working class.

This.

Too many people cannot grasp that the only "elite" that matter are the economic elite, aka the capitalist class - whom Trump is both a part of and also represents. Voting in bourgeois elections is useless as it is, but to 'protest' vote, as America did in this last election, is even more useless and in this case, most of these people just ended up shooting themselves in the foot. I bet half his constituency doesn't even have the wits to realize that he looks at most of them with contempt and views them as being inferior to him and those in his class (both intellectually as well as self-worth); yet they'd probably take a bullet for him. SMH.

Yes. These things are usually alwyas put under a magnifying glass when it happens in teh US. And I am always the first to say we basically have the same things going on in Europe.....even in my own country. The major difference is that we never have the super-rich trying to become politically in the spot-lights.

I guess the US is in that sense much more like modern day Russia and China.