Trump is a fake-as-fuck populist, flaunts a super contrived "realness", and is just as much of an elite as Hillary, if not even more so. ...but Trump's act won over swing voters who previously went for Obama, and he won a chunk of would-be Bernie voters (independents as well as some ppl who normally vote republican but were won over by Bernie's message)

Yellow Vest situation going on overseas, with all its complicated mix of left/right positions among the ranks, is just one more indicator that shit is becoming more and more about "the people" vs "the machine" (however various folks define and understand those categories)