Ok, so you see a hidden hand, the elites manipulating by divide and conquer. It is not a faulty view, yet I also see that, in the States at least, for decades and what we could call the combined elite status quo of the GHW Bush-Clinton-GeorgeBush-Obama- ... and tried to be Hillary Clinton regimes, that we had a status quo of big government, by both Republican and Democrat.
Parallel to this though we have had a liberty movement by independents and Libertarians. There was Ross Perot early on, then Ron Paul, and then in 2008 the Tea Party movement became strong. I do not believe these were controlled opposition or a divisive ploy by the status quo criminal crony political corporate cabal, but a genuine movement of the people who are fed up with the elite powers.
This growing movement has put itself behind whichever leader they could, and of the last 10 years or so there was not a good representative. I believe Trump therefore, was not selected by a group of elites, nor really was he selected by the people in any groundswell -- UNTIL he began running and saying the things that the people were already thinking. AT that point, it was obvious to me (and all others who were not at all surprised or shocked or dismayed by his election), that he won by such a large electoral margin.
The fact that there is so much genuine surprise and freak out by the mainstream media and the political class and Hollywood show that this isn't an alternative of 'another half', but a genuine people's movement, and therefore a very real reason for the Ruling Class to be afraid.
If Trump does not perform, or appears to 'sell out' to the ruling class, the movement will still continue.
Perhaps this is where many around the world miss an important point about Americans, is that the people themselves are not going to accept a king or a royalty or a ruling class for very long. There is an essential sense of liberty within us, and ... so far ... no amount of deliberate dumbing down (which has been extreme by the Department of Education, et al) has dumbed out of enough of us to squash the juggernaut towards freedom and independence.
I appreciate your comments.