Americans live in various bubbles. And MSM refuses to see America as it is, they live in a bubble of mostly the conservative or libertarian well to do. They only talk to themselves and miss the enormous elephant that influences the rural areas and rust belts of America. Actually two elephants exist, evangelical Christians came out for Trump in massive numbers, they want the old time religion back, and two, right wing hate media which has demonized Hillary for over twenty years. Add the useless congressional investigation assumptions and you have the ingredients for Trump. Driving in rural PA I was astounded at the Trump signs, and if you take the time you can hear Limbaugh on the radios there. Hate is so appealing background noise for some.
"The indisputable fact is that prevailing institutions of authority in the West, for decades, have relentlessly and with complete indifference stomped on the economic welfare and social security of hundreds of millions of people. While elite circles gorged themselves on globalism, free trade, Wall Street casino gambling, and endless wars (wars that enriched the perpetrators and sent the poorest and most marginalized to bear all their burdens), they completely ignored the victims of their gluttony, except when those victims piped up a bit too much — when they caused a ruckus — and were then scornfully condemned as troglodytes who were the deserved losers in the glorious, global game of meritocracy." Glenn Greenwald
https://theintercept.com/2016/11/09...gerous-refusal-to-learn-the-lesson-of-brexit/