pretty much. dismissing trump and insulting his base without understanding how they got where they are is going to do more harm than good.

already the media constant trump bashing is entrenching camps on each side instead of promoting understanding of and the outcome is going to be bad for democracy either way, whether he wins or lose.

the result of which will be an anti-political movement of which you've never seen the likes hitting in the next three cycles, with extremely unpredictable results in the fight between the entrenched establishment and the newcomer reactionaries

Look no further than Italy as a case study. America is circa at where Italy where in the early nineties.