Another Brilliant Analysis on Why Trump Will Beat Clinton

To boil down the above paragraphs into my own words: Clinton represents a cold, corrupt, rent-seeking technocrat; a skilled operator within the callous, abstract phantom economy, while Trump, for all his flaws, has come to symbolize the disintegrating real economy. A place of blue collars and bricks and mortar; a place where people still work with their hands and come drenched with perspiration, their pants covered in dust. While the reality of Trump is completely distinct from what he represents, he pays homage to that world, and versus someone as discredited and phony as Hillary Clinton, this will be sufficient (although it wouldn’t work as well if his opponent was Bernie Sanders, who exudes authenticity and empathy for those Americans left behind).

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