MY NEXT USA TODAY COLUMN EXPLAINS THIS AS A PREFERENCE CASCADE: Brendan O’Neill: From Trumpmania to Euroscepticism: Revenge of the Plebs. “America’s new elites, fancying themselves superior to the rural, the old, the religiously inclined and the rest, have increasingly turned politics into something that is done to people, for their own good, rather than by people according to their moral outlook. And then they wonder why people go looking for something else, something less sneering.”