The 2016 Election Explained

The quote below is from a column by Charles Cooke about why he, an Englishman, became a U.S. citizen, but it is as good an explanation for the 2016 election of President Trump as I have seen anywhere, if a tad heavy on political theory:

Read the founding documents and you will see free men declaring in no uncertain terms that they are free men, and affirming too that they must be neither treated as subjects nor expected to submit to the caprice of the powerful or to the zeitgeist as the condition of entering into the social compact.

Translation: Don't tread on me!
www.nationalreview.com/article/449156/fourth-of-july-american-exceptionalism-britons-perspective