The resistance to Trump may come from the very elites he PRETENDED to criticize:

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His opponent is, by any detached observation, a well-qualified and thoroughly ordinary political figure, with a common and unremarkable package of strengths and weaknesses. In posture and policy Hillary Clinton has more in common with traditional Republicans like Mitt Romney, John McCain or Paul Ryan than with Donald Trump.

Trump is an unprecedented and utterly indefensible political outlier. Despite having captured the Republican nomination with the smallest primary margin of any modern candidate, he now carries an imprimatur of legitimacy. As a major party nominee, Donald Trump offers as pure a test of Milgram’s hypotheses as one could hope to capture in the wild.

Forbes

"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce

"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
Dostoevsky