Trump pricked a huge boil in the political landscape. These issues have been festering for decades and its been growing steam with the average taxpayer footing the bill for luxury ideologies.
"Abundance", Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
https://www.vox.com/politics/405063/ezra-klein-thompson-abundance-book-criticism
I don't know if you are much of a reader, the book review on Vox, at least, offers the current lunatics in charge of the left a way they have a snowball's chance in hell against the present unpopular sentiment they have.