 We are now at that point. Trump is the fruit of the party's collective neglect. I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical a-hole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad and might even prove useful or that he's America's Hitler. How's that for discouraging? Now, people are focusing on the last part there, but you can see hints even in the first part that what he wants to do is offer something to the white working class, particularly in the Rust Belt states. And that has grown into a sort of full-blown interest.