I would agree that complex things are not simple. That said, Rock, you could hardly see victories for what we would term the liberal/progressive sides in either the Brexit vote or the U.S. election. Both were driven, to certain extents, by a some similar issues, among them shipping jobs out of their respective countries and a deep antipathy toward immigration.

Both major parties in the U.K. underestimated the pro-sovereignty, anti-Europe feelings there, as the Democrats clearly were out-of-step with the anxieties in the Rust Belt (I would argue that the GOP was as well; Trump, in my estimation, latched onto a winning formula by accident).

You are absolutely correct that Trump isn't a traditional conservative. He's proven that he has no coherent political viewpoint, nor any interest in one. He says what he believes his audience wants to hear, and if his next audience is different then so is his message.