You are giving Trump more credit than he deserves. He's not that powerful. No single human is. The power goes the other way, the plebs empowering their political proxies. So Trump is just a reflection of identity issues already fermenting in the culture.
I'm just going to talk about the giant neon green elephant making sparks in the middle of the room.
The demographics of American society are changing. Part of that is the demographics of this hemisphere. White people are increasingly the minority, and increasingly not the most important thing going on.
Part of that is American society itself. Minorities are increasingly present and participating in government. They are defining and influencing culture. This congressional junior class is pushing on many white people's buttons.
The big question for white Americans is whether their struggles are because Jesus came to American illegally to pick strawberries... or if their struggles are because Khaled brought his family from Syria and runs a gyro counter while he sends his daughter to college.... or if their struggles are because their government from top to bottom has fucked them.
