Conservative populism has been carefully and deliberately encouraged because the working class has been losing their jobs and watching their prosperity and their kids' futures evaporate. The American Dream is vanishing because it simply isn't profitable for big business to offer it as a job benefit any more. They need someone to blame: Blacks, Muslims, Mexicans, Liberal elites, the Media?

Everything and everyone is going broke, but the Market is booming and corporate profits and top executive bonuses are going through the roof. All additional wealth created by the society is being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, all at the top. The TPartiers and sTrumpets have to be be convinced the reason they don't have good jobs and salaries any more, why their kids can't afford college and their real estate has been foreclosed, is because of Obamacare, the Unions, and because the rich and the corporations are paying too much in taxes.

If they hadn't had a Trump they would have had to create one. But it appears they have inadvertently created a monster, and he has slipped his leash.