The general concept of really the Tea Parties rise and Trumps is that you have a group of poor people in small urban centers, predominantly white with low education who used to be able to have reasonably successful lives.
With the loss of manufacturing and the increase in STEM jobs they have been left behind in the job market despite in improving in larger urban centers.
Then you have the media talking about things that are icky that were always well hidden in the smaller urban centers. So you have a group of people looking for someone to blame who feel that they are losing the country that they identify with.
So you have people suffering economically and being told they are bigots when they express their opinion. They are looking for something.
And when someone comes along who gives them someone to blame and says the things out loud that they think of course they are going to rally behind him.
So did the left create "trumpism" not really but the country becoming more and more liberal combined with globalization has left people feeling like outsiders which is a prime condition for a leader to take advantage of.
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