Not one mention of religion in the article. Not one mention of the 2010 or 2014 elections and what happened in DC. No talk of the difference between the reporting on the Tea Party and what actually happened, No EPA, no school lunch program talk, and no talk about every Atlantic article that demonizes some aspect of the rural areas including farming.

Its pretty simple why Trump won the GOP nomination: a lot of folks are not happy with the actions of politicians and want a definite change. If that doesn't work, they'll try someone more radical.

or

if you keep demonizing a group, expect them to send an actual demon eventually

Read this one for the other side of the coin: https://www.amazon.com/Flyover-Nation-Country-Youve-Never/dp...

" Brexit was not fuelled by hope for a different future. On the contrary, many Leavers believed that withdrawing from the EU wouldn’t really change things one way or the other, but they still wanted to do it."

"This taps into a much broader cultural and political malaise, that also appears to be driving the rise of Donald Trump in the US. Amongst people who have utterly given up on the future, political movements don’t need to promise any desirable and realistic change."

I know quite a few Trump voters and read quite a few forums on that discuss the GOP race, and they are expecting change ("real change" as I'm often told). I think this assumption is pretty far off. I see it a lot in the US media, but I think its some internal justification for why people might believe something different than themselves. After all, people really cannot actually be supporting Trump, right?!?

A book just came out expressing part of the phenomena by Dana Loesch (conservative media whose preferred candidate also didn't win) https://www.amazon.com/Flyover-Nation-Country-Youve-Never/dp... - Its bit a "provocative" (ok, a lot) in tone, but might round out the discussion.