Analysing the election

I don't think thats what User555net  is saying.  Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that he or she is saying is that this is what many people are thinking and feeling today. They feel betrayed by the political establishment.  Of course, we all know that they should never have put their trust in the politicians in the first place,  Just as we all know that Trump is going to betray them just as surely as his predecessors. Nevertheless, I think as description of the popular mood of the times its fairly accurate.  Populism is on the rise in many parts of the world.  Developments like Brexit and the election of Trump are part of a wider pattern,  This signifies something more than the usual change of government and its replacement by a more or less identical successor government.  I would use the analogy of the Kondratiev long wave cycle which can be superimposed on the normal ten year capitalist trade cycle.  Of course fundamentally its still capitalism but there has been a shift in the relationship between the political and economic realms, a change in the institutional  architecture of capitalism itself – possibly away from neoliberalism towards a more mercantilist world if Trump's words are to  be taken at face value

There were other candidates being voted on and the Republicans prevailed again. But there were referendumsMeasures that would increase the minimum wage were approved in Washington, Colorado, Maine and Arizona. Voters in Washington backed a move to raise the hourly wage floor to $13.50, while the other three states got behind increases to $12 per hour. Voters, meanwhile, backed referenda that would end marijuana prohibition in California, Massachusetts, Maine, and Nevada. The question failed, however, in Arizona. Medicinal marijuana was also approved through questions posed directly to voters in Florida, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Montana.Conservatives also prevailed in a number of ballot measures, affirming support for the death penalty in Nebraska and Oklahoma. Californians, meanwhile, backed a move that would expedite capital punishment, while defeating another that would have scrapped state executions entirely.South Dakota backed an initiative that would put a 36 percent interest rate cap on short-term loans, in a minor blow to the payday lending industry.California voters also approved Prop 63, which will institute a number of gun control measures in the state, and Prop 57, Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to shrink the jail population by loosening parole rules and offering a new chance at prison release for non-violent offenders. Proposition 56, which will raise the tobacco tax by $2 a pack, also passed.Prop 55 means higher tax on the wealthyAnd let us now forget that because of the failure of Proposition 60 in California porn movie actors won't be required to wear condoms…a crippling blow in the class war. 

The writer of that definition has not read the history of Russia before  the revolution, and the history of the Bolshevik, and the works of Georgi Plekhanov, and the works of Vladimir Lenin. .Lenin brother was a populist and the Bolsheviks opposed Populism known as Naroniks. The Marxists in Russia opposed Populism.I have read the works of Lenin and Plekhanov and when he became a Marxist he stopped supporting Russian Populism.Due to their lack of support within the Russian peasantry they became terrorist, the first "Marxist" in Russia was Plekhanov, but before that he was a Populist.In Latin America there was a similar trend when they considered the peasants as the main force of the revolution and some organizations  t sent their best cadres to work with peasants. They contradicted themselves with the works of Lenin.The concept of Populism has been used in a derogatory way in Latin America by the right wingers, indicating that many workers movements are composed of peasants and uneducated peoples, the real concept can not be applied to the countries of Latin America because capitalism has been established in the country side and the majority of the peasants are wage slaves. That term can not he applied to the US workers when it is a highly developed capitalist country, and all the peasants are wage slaves and capitalism has been applied to agriculture. Populism does not come from being Popular, as  Anarchism does not mean chaoshttps://www.britannica.com/event/Narodnik.  It looks like the Enciclopedia Britannica has the correct definition. Tony Cliff who was a Trotskyist has also given the proper definition:https://www.marxists.org/archive/cliff/works/1957/01/plekhanov.htmThe book named as the History of the Russian  Communist Party written in 1930 during the times of Joseph Stalin the proper defintion is given too, 

We have had Governor Huey Long, Father Conghlin, Governor George Wallace.Who can forget Ross Perot in 1992 – 20 million votes, nearly 20%.And we have Teddy Roosevelt, of course…Republican/Progressive Party maverick president

 ALBI have  great respect for you I did a research on the term Populism, from its beginning and its proponents which I had done in prior years,  thru the different places and countries that it has existed, or has been proposed, and I was able to see the metamorphosis of the term from Europe, Asia, USA and Latin America, and my conclusion is that,  I was wrong, and and you are correct. As Robbo203 wrote,  my definition was too narrow  PS The writings  of the US economist Henry George are also based on the tenancy of the land, he wrote Poverty and Misery. There is a  Henry George;s   School of Political Economy  in New York.