I agree with your take on all that Diderot. I *thought* that the only people who sided with "establishment Republicans" (what you call "Republicans") were the 1/10th of 1 percent who are actually feeding at the trough.
Bernie and Trump voters comprised what, 70% of the voting population? They all want the Congressmen and lobbyists thrown out or put in jail. Who voted for Trump - the people in favor of the status quo?
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Honest question: wasn't the Hillary vote basically the only vote that (inadvertently) supported the status quo? Surely we can agree she was the personification of Washington D.C. establishment.
But of course most Hillary voters were voting for Supreme Court picks etc., and holding their noses about what it meant in terms of ossifying the establishment in D.C.