your view of them being idiots is one that is shared by media...and they voted against it.
this vote took the form of Donald trump. the bigger idiot he was the more effective he was as an FU.
I realise the election was won by people staying home - they already hated Hillary and then she got caught up in spirit cooking pedo stuff to boot.
and Donald is well...Donald.
but none the less the people that feel disenfranchised - the ones constantly being called idiots, racists, sexists etc - were enough to get Donald trump in.
perhaps you and you're ilk should stop insulting people then there wouldn't be as much of a rebellious nature to these things.
this pattern was played out during the goodes booing saga too.
How do they reverse it though?
The problem is people like Trump and Hanson and co. can appeal to the prejudices of the great unwashed and convince them that ignoring global warming and stopping illegal immigrants and reducing taxes alone will improve their lives which obviously it won't. Reducing taxes is self serving for the elite and the rest is irrelevant except for the minor detail that global warming will ruin the planet. So essentially Trumps big promise means he really doesn't have to do that much.
What can the left actually do? They are not going to wind back globalisation. They do not reduce taxes. All they do is protect things like healthcare and social security which is completely taken for granted anyway and bang on about education which the people they need to vote for them hardly care about or the environment which gets completely dismissed at the first turn or matters like gay marriage which while some people might think are important really don't matter that much. So what are they actually offering? What is the left selling?
Of the all the issues that people think decided the election;
Race - surely there are not enough people that care
Gay marriage - not enough people that care
Climate change - not enough people that care highlighted by the fact that no government ever has to actually do something about it
Women's rights - not enough people that care highlighted by the fact Trump can have that video released and still get in
Academically it might be good, socially it might be responsible, morally it might be correct, but ultimately the great unwashed do not give a shit about the platform of the left