"'Believe in America!' 'A new American century!' What are they talking about? wondered voters battered and bruised by the previous American century. Donald Trump, the oldest candidate on the Republican stage, was also the first to discern that the political language of the 1980s had lost its power. The most common age for white Americans in 2015 was 55. These older white voters were more eager to protect what they had than to hustle for more. They wanted less change, not more. They cared about security, not opportunity. Protection of the status quo was what candidate Trump offered.
"Donald Trump created in effect a three-party system in the United States, by building a new Trump Party in between the Democratic and Republican Parties."
The Atlantic runs an excerpt from David Frum's Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic.
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