Trump is a symptom of widespread disgust, not the head of a carefully crafted ideological movement with a checklist of issues.

The columnist like myself or people at Stanford University don't wake up in the morning and see their job outsourced. Yet we promote free markets. But we're not sensitive to what that does to other people who don't have our privilege.

Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.

Cheap anti-Americanism will eventually have consequences.

Of course, the Clintons are not only corrupt but cynical as well. They accept that the progressive media, the foundations, the universities, the bureaucracies, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley honor power more than trendy left-wing politics; they well understand that their fans will, for them, make the necessary adjustments to contextualize Clinton criminality or amorality.

Most authoritarians do not surrender power voluntarily.

It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it.