Change

From 1930 and continuing in the post war years the democratic party controlled the congress. It began with FDR's New Deal and continued under LBJ's Great Society until the Reagan Revolution turned the congress over in Clinton's term. During these years many injustices were set on the road to correcting. People achieved equal rights although there is still work to be done the progress was notable. Clinton, as part of his policy of triangulation said the era of big government is over and thus set the stage for Trump. The democrats made serious inroads toward equality for all but then they continued a little to far when they got side tracked by bathrooms and statues and equity. When they said democracy was threatened they were implying that Trump was the threat but many working people believed that democracy had already been taken from them and that Trump would renew democracy. These were the people who watched their good jobs go overseas while the elites both businesses and better educated people were winners. These workers blamed the government and to them the government was not only the elected officials but the whole bureaucracy. They see the big corporations using lobbyist to maintain the status quo and they want a change and Trump is the person they believe can bring about this change. The bureaucrats will fight this and with their companions in the press they may well curtail any significant change. In the past it was always a change back and forth between democrats and republicans but this time is different because Trump is both, depending on the issue.