When This Blows Over

Trump disrupted a lot of assumed status quo
pretension, and people were bewildered because
their orthodoxy said “you can’t do that”, and if you
do, chaos will ensue - and not only did chaos not
ensue, but foreign policy and economic successes
did. Now they’re trying to either piggy back on it or
deprecate Trump’s contribution, but whatever
they’re doing, the message is they could not do or
they would not do that and people are showing their
class tag.”
Q: Does that mean that the change is so tectonic in
2016 that the stranglehold of the Brookings
Institution, know-it-alls, the op-ed writers has been
broken for good or will we snap back to business as
usual when Trump is gone? How large is the impact,
historically, of the 2016 election?
“I think it’s pretty large. There are force multipliers
like the internet and blogging and Twitter that allow
messaging to go out, regardless of the imprimatur
from the elite – it doesn’t matter anymore.