If you could get beyond the bluster and menace of Trump (and, okay, the cruelty, bigotry, lunacy, criminality, incompetence, and so on), his message did contain kernels of cogent defiance against Washington’s permanent syndicates. You could make an argument that he did offer a version of the “they’re screwing you” critique that the likes of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren had been tossing out. Both Sanders and Warren used the term “rigged system” long before Trump ever did.
