This article says a heckuva lot about the recent populist uprisings: a heckuva lot.

Think of the stereotype of "Uncle John" or "your drunken uncle" who aggressively puts forth his opinions. He's reacting to being ostracized!

When ya think about it, the folks who got behind Trump did act as if they were ostracized: ostracized from the so-called Overton Window of acceptable political discourse. They were treated as if they and their opinions were banished from polite company. This explains why Trump was prolly the most underestimated President-Elect since Andrew Jackson.

One interesting wrinkle to the ostracism process is ostracized folks with common interests forming a counter-ingroup. They have a tendency to put down the "sheeple", "normies" or whatever term that stands for folks who prefer the dominant paradigm. And of course, those counter-ingroups are all hostile to the powers that be!

A really interesting dynamic...