This election cycle is too rich in invective for just one quote of the day. Some people are starting to understand the issue. For the elite ignore the peasantry.

I was sitting in a meeting yesterday. Our progressive mayor has decided that we can get refugees. so next month we get teh first tranche of the 120 odd we will get every year. Via the UN refugee camps. Traumatized in their home country. Traumatized more by the UN. And they guy next to me muttered “They will all have PTSD”.

I agreed. I’ve worked in an area with a refugee resettlement area before. And he served for the Iranian military during their war with Ba’athist Iraqis. We have to stretch our budget to deal with this: without a budget for the extra interpreters we will need (who better understand village Arabic).

When concerns were raised in this decision, we were told we were racist. Our experience was discounted because of feelz. And it was both the nationalist government and the progressive opposition. They have forgotten that loyalty and feality run both ways, and then are shocked, shocked, that nationalists and populists take over.

This week’s spectator.

The standard British and conservative approach is to despise Trump. He is too brash, he lacks culture, he is not. one. of. us. The Spectator leaks snobbishness this week, the besetting sin of the Tories.

Trump’s critics compare his candidacy to that of Barry Goldwater in 1964, an insurgent campaign that wooed the radical right only then to be slaughtered by Lyndon B. Johnson, a machine Democrat. But the comparison misunderstands and undervalues Trump’s strengths. In his celebrity and ability to appeal to very different voters, Trump more resembles Ronald Reagan, a man who can remodel politics in his own image.

The depth and breadth of Trump’s appeal is endlessly surprising. He is more popular than other Republican candidates among men, women, whites, blacks, Hispanics, old, young, married and unmarried, evangelicals and non-evangelicals, those with college degrees and those without (‘I love the poorly educated,’ he said last week, a comment which prompted much chortling from the better educated). Trump has majority support among Republican voters who earn a lot of money and those who earn little, from self-described conservatives and moderates. As you might expect from someone who promises to build a wall to keep out Mexicans, he wins with people who worry most about immigration. But he also wins with those who cite the economy and terrorism as their chief concerns. In short, he wins a lot. Since the financial crash, and despite the so-called recovery, an ever larger number of Americans feel angry at the system. The Donald embodies their rage and multiplies it as in a hall of mirrors.

The consolation — and how people will cling to it in the coming weeks! — is that Trump probably won’t be president. According to the polls, a large majority of Americans hold an ‘unfavourable’ opinion of him. He may reflect the rage of Republican voters but no one in the history of the republic has been as reviled as Trump and reached the White House. Hillary should therefore win, because she is a bit less despicable. But when the good news is that the Clintons — a couple every bit as depraved as Trump in their way — are coming back to the White House, the world has a big problem.

What Freddy misses is this is driven by disgust. Most Americans are in despair, because those they have sent to clean up the mess in Washington get trapped in a system that assumes it can spend without limit, act without consequence, and micro manage the lives of a people who were once free.

They have had enough. And if this does not work, it will be worse.

Donald Trump is the fault of the GOP elite, including movement conservatives, who failed to listen, who failed to follow through, who thought we were meant to lead the benighted past their narrow self-interests and unseemly prejudices to a wonderful new world reflecting our benevolent self-interests and elite prejudices. Funny how the conservative, globalized utopia we sought to impose always worked out really well for us. Except those left behind aren’t laughing.

Trumpism isn’t merely about unfocused anger – it would be super-convenient to write this off as a temper tantrum that will soon blow over and allow us to get back to the business as usual of ignoring the pleas (which are now demands) to stop the immigration disaster, to address the fallout of free trade, and to stop the useless sacrifice of our sons and daughters in wars we’re too damn gutless to win. But it isn’t. Again and again Republicans promised to solve these problems and yet every single time they’ve lied. Rubio got elected in Florida promising to oppose amnesty then not only fails to do so but stands up with the Democrats and did the exact opposite. And we’re surprised a candidate comes along and points that out?

Think of this as, in large part, the struggle between the haves and have nots of globalization. Amnesty was a great idea for bubble people who think illegal immigration satisfies some sort of libertarian ideal, or who only experience its impact by being able to hire a cheaper nanny. It’s a pretty great idea for the illegals too. But leave your nice neighborhood and go where a high school grad who was born here can’t get a job as a roofer since any general contractor who doesn’t hire illegals is going to go broke because his competition will. Tell somebody whose daughter is shot dead in front of him by an illegal who got arrested five times but never got deported that it’s an act of love.

If we had built the damn wall we promised our base back then, we probably wouldn’t have that damn Trump now.

Free trade is great, in a macro sense. It sure helps enrich the donor class. But go tell the guy who lost his $25 an hour job because NAFTA let Carrier move its air conditioning plant to Mexico about Milton Friedman’s “Free to Choose.” What’s he free to choose? Long-term unemployment? Making a fake Social Security disability claim? Or taking a job greeting at Wal-Mart for $8 an hour?

Immigration and free trade are generally good, but they impose real costs and our base is getting handed the bill. These folks have been asking us for help, and what was our response? Shut up, stupid racists. Well, they finally found someone who is taking their side. His name is Donald Trump, and we made him possible. Hell, we made him inevitable.

If you are a progressive a member of the unitarian singularity, a worshiper of Chulthu, an advocate for the death of the unborn and any human who, like the elderly, homeless and frail, who offends your sense of aesthetics you do not see a problem, You see power, a chance to push your agenda. A sense of being shut out by machine politicians has led to a SJW capture of the parties of the left and the promotion of frank socialists such as Sanders and Corbyn. These are the Barry Goldwaters of this election cycle.

But they have some honour. I consider them wrongheaded at best and actively evil at worst, but they are taking their agenda seriously. The so-called conservative machine politicians betray conservatism and tradition. They are afraid of those, like Abbott, who take these things seriously (Turnbill is not trusted because he knifed the sitting PM).

If we do not have reformation there will a revolt. It will not be progressive. It will be nationalist: it will be bloody. The current managed state is bankrupt and lacks moral power. If they do not reform, then Enoch Powell’s comments about rivers of blood may again be true: the White, reactionary terror in France killed as many or more than the Jacobins did.