To dismiss Trump is to dismiss the deep antipathy many many Americans have of the government and the coastal elites, they hate being talked down to any everytime a smart arse journalist, actor, comedian or politician queues up to slam Trump they see it as the ‘establishment’ gangng up on him and they root for him even harder.
As far as they’re concerned Clinton is pretty much the embodiment of that ‘establishment’ (and, you can’t deny that they have a point there) and Sanders is basically a communist out to tax them all to death.
The trouble is that Clinton has been around so long and has so much baggage that she’s just not that inspiring and it’s going to be very hard to motivate people to go out and vote for her, whereas ‘Team Angry’ who are backing Trump will turn out in thier droves.
The Tories here have a similar tactic of courting the Daily Mail readers whilst screwing the young, Paul Dacre’s readers may be ill informed and myopic but unlike the bright young things in thier teens and 20’s, they all vote!
If Obama could run again he’d walk it, Clinton I’m not so sure and much of it hinges on what happens over the next month, one terrorist attack on the mainland U.S. and we could be staring down the barrel of President Trump.