On the one hand I'd love to talk about this with other people, particularly the sort of person who gets (some of) their news from Hacker News. On the other ha

On the one hand I'd love to talk about this with other people, particularly the sort of person who gets (some of) their news from Hacker News. On the other hand I feel like political garbage is what killed off Slashdot, and I love how HN feels like /. before it tanked. So with that being said - what I took from the article was the author's belief that Trump won because the economy is doing great for some people and terribly for others (this seems like a reasonable statement to me). He goes on to say that those people who are doing well haven't done enough to help those who have been left behind. I think there's a kernel of truth here, but I think he's also leaving something important out. Many of those most solidly left behind vote hard-right. They go to the polls and vote for politicians who promise to gut the government - to slash taxes, eliminate public education, slash Social Security and Medicare, to make the government so small you can drown it in a bathtub. It's very, very hard for those who are doing well to help those who are left behind when the people who are left behind are working so hard to eliminate any help they could (and should!) get from the government.