Inequality and the downward mobility of millions of Americans put Trump into the White House. Consider: Counties won by Trump account for just 36 percent of the total national economy; counties won by Hillary Clinton account for 64 percent. This degree of inequality has created large communities of people with no future -- whose only aspiration, understandably, is to turn back the clock.
Trump himself is all ego, hate, and lying bombast. He will do nothing for them. But when so many Americans see no future but only the past, those of us who want to move the nation forward must respond.