At the heart of the identity crisis is a harsh reality: working class voters have been abandoning the very parties whose raison d’etre was to protect them. Blue collar workers are switching sides. Today there are not only fewer of them-as economies have evolved to more high-skilled labor-but those left are more socially conservative and opposed to immigration.

This bothers me so much. It's the other way around. It is the parties who have abandoned the voters.

But the media just won't stop blaming the people. It's their fault these things have happened. Populism is supposed to be cured by the establishment stealing the populist positions. This isn't happening. Instead political and media establishments (but I repeat myself) all over the world would rather die than give one inch to the people. It's so bad, I just don't get why they have a complete inability to perceive the problem correctly.