The left is the 1% as well. How much money do the Clintons have? A lot. How much Wall Street support did Obama have? A lot. If Hollywood isn't the 1%, what are they?
> ...working class have found a billionaire to be their champion...
Thiel is interesting partly because he's a business leader that talks about politics and isn't explicitly liberal. That is, he's an exception that proves the rule.
> ...and think that migrants and non-white and non-Christian people are to blame for their suffering...
Some do. But most have more complex motivations involving economics, democracy, and fighting (in their minds) corruption and hypocrisy. The Left won't make any positive progress here unless they try to understand their neighbors.
This is why "Love Trumps Hate" rings really hollow to most of the people I ask about these things.
And I'd argue that Trump has much more in common with progressive-era Democrats (like Wilson) than he does with "the right" in modern America.
If this isn't the election where we throw away (or at least officially redefine) the concept of "left" and "right", I'm not sure there will be one.
Were you paying attention to a guy called Bernie Sanders? He was the first actual leftist to run for high office in the USA in generations.
Clinton was a wishy-washy centrist who could barely even pretend to be throwing scraps to the Sanders movement.