What the hell is going on? These are real trends but I have a different answer to the opening question: the elites are failing, they don't seem better than the

What the hell is going on? These are real trends but I have a different answer to the opening question: the elites are failing, they don't seem better than the rest of us any more. And I don't think it's just a matter of explosion of information available online. They're really not as sharp and competent as their predecessors, not as good, definitely not nearly as bold. The reason Trump could bulldoze through two America's most powerful political dynasties is not Hillary's emails on Wikileaks but their weak candidates who had to rely completely on warchests, pundits, media and party machine. And the machine didn't fail them. They failed the machine.