Victor Davis Hansen has a new blog entry (and article) that looks into what is driving Donald Trump supporters. 

http://victorhanson.com/wordpress/

Mr. Hansen writes, "White elites are the main reason Donald Trump’s campaign hasn’t sputtered and failed."   And he makes that case that angry white poor and working class (and, I'd argue, middle class) have adopted Donald Trump as the symbol for an anti-elite reaction. 

Mr. Hansen makes a separation based upon income where those below a line deal with a reality that the wealthy don't.  I disagree with him there.  I think that is a reach.  I believe it is a moral issue. 

The Progressives have been working political correctness like a fully employed carpenter works his hammer.  And doing so for decades.  Political correctness has political goals and is used as a political tool, but it hits its targets and does its work with a moral attack.  For example, people who work for a living have been made to feel guilty for opposing the idea of others getting a free ride.  People who are white are told that their skin color is "privilige."  No niche, no corner of our culture isn't being turned every which way.  If you don't understand why transgendered people need their own bathroom, then you are a neanderthal.

But I think it goes even deeper than that.  The very nature of a class structure built on a kind of elitism is galling.  It really does rub against what is left of American's independent nature.  It is an emotional rebellion against the product of a century of progressivism's movement towards institutionalized elitism, morally divisive identity politics, and this is all playing out with cronyism and hypocrisy growing more and more visible in the background. 

How ironic it will be if a fascist Trump administration were put into place because of a subconcious, emotional reaction to the progressives' (and the GOP establishment elitists') manipulative drive towards centralized power over all.

When objective political principles are no longer discussed or even understood, emotional tides will take us places we don't want to be and whose specifics we would never have predicted.