Curiously he uses same strawmen he objects too - "Hillary not that great" when near 0 people were saying she was due to peer pressure, social messaging, conventional wisdom from the left, and some actual belief. She was easily as exciting as Carter, Mondale, Dukakis, Gore, Kerry, and to some extent no-drama Obama, along with the monkeys like Bush and Cru on the right, but we needed a "both sides do it" framing.

He discusses all the framing of resentment, and then ignores the list when evaluating Hillary. He talks about conspiracy excitement but ignores that much of this manufactured excitement was against Hillary. There was nothing super great about Bernie either as an ornery old guy pitching a few slightly rebellious, slightly recycled ideas, roughly the same debate as Gore-Bradley 2000, except the full Bush brain rot has taken hold, so people assume surviving 2008 crash was easy, and gosh darn it why doesn't the president just ggrow more jobs faster and why don't we just do single payer - there's an app for all that, no? Obviously the US economy will rebound no matter what, right? And here's Bernie again spending more energy running against the Democratic Party than Republicans,because well, a country that votes in Republicans should expect the most out of their (non-existent) Democratic representatives, right? It's like "why can't Obama get us out of Bush's war and Bush's economic crash - I think I'll go vote me some more Republicans, because Obama acts too conservative". Saddle anyone with a few trillion dollars debt  and other entrenched crises and they might act a bit conservative unless they're completely loony.

But I agree, the more people are on the service end of tech, they think it's simple. Real estate, bank teller, phone bank, store checkout, online arketing, whatever - they brush up against new stuff, but don't know how it works (well enough to contribute anything), but salaries and employment and the cheap Chinese shit you can still afford are enough to still survive and say, "why not more?" without examing the mechanics of what more requires. How many are actually working those 1 1/2 to 2 full-time jobs that were common when I was a kid? I still hear horr stories from the Great Depression that was much longer and more acute, but this gwnwration needed its Depreasion and Woodstock too.