our establishment seems to like it when populists stay below 35% of the vote. Probably thinking "keep them there forever".....but Trump getting through, getting elected, and going mainstream was a horror miscalculation from the usual baddies.
They want to absolutely make certain it never happens again. A bit like the crooked Presidential election we just had in Ireland. The mainstream shut out a populist Right-winger - by ensuring she didnt get enough political nominations to 'go to the country' .....and the net outcome ? we got a nasty surprise of a hard left President. The right got blocked. The normal dependable support, for the centre, collapsed. Ireland now has a woman waving a Palestine flag in our Presidential office.