The results of the 2016 presidential election surprised just about everyone. I’ve been trying to get my head around it and what it all means. During the primaries, I was debating with my son-in-law, a fervent Bernie Sanders supporter, about Sanders’ electability. I viewed Sanders as too left-leaning and too strident to win a general election. In hindsight, it was Hillary who was unelectable. Sanders, like Donald Trump, had tapped into the anger, frustration and disenfranchisement felt by so many people – particularly traditional Democrats. Clinton didn’t get what Trump and Sanders got – that peoples’ patience had worn thin, that they were fed up with a struggling economy that had left them behind and an unresponsive, broken government. Many of us were hit hard by the Great Recession of 2008, and have struggled to claw back to being whole again. Factory workers across the country have seen their jobs move overseas. The disparity of income between executives and front-line w