Legitimate claims, backed by history, they are.... but Divisive, they remain.

The only way the claims can be divisive is if the "accused" (Republicans) contest the assertion, and the historical facts.

Otherwise it is a simple statement of fact.

the political elite has clearly lost this election.

No, the people who understand how government works, have lost the election. You now have the equivalent of fry cooks running the nuclear power plant. And that's gonna work out just swell.

You also rambled off on some tangent about the free market, which didn't make a lot of sense, so I will respond with this: Government and business are completely intertwined. Businesspeople get paid for meeting goals. Those goals require margins to be as tight as possible, and profits to be as high as possible. Government adjustments to trade deals, interest rates, tax laws, etc, cause uncertainty, and make businesspeople scramble to make their margins to meet their goals, so they can get paid.

Trump understands none of this complexity, or the intertwined nature of government and finance, and so he is already a bull in a china shop.

Here's the deal: He wants to levy a 45% import duty on all Chinese imports. That will reduce American exports around the world (in part, because, in a retaliatory measure, China will lower their prices in other markets to make American imports prohibitively expensive), which will produce a 1.5% decrease in the US GDP in the first year, and then double every year until the crashing US economy forces Trump to renegotiate our foreign trade deals. But instead of renegotiating from a position of strength, it will be from a position of weakness, and will ensure we get WORSE trade deals than we started with.

In addition, the Mexican peso collapses, which then causes more illegal immigration into America, which American businesses welcome, because now their products can't compete on the international markets, so they have to cut costs, and American workers won't work for $5/hr, but an illegal immigrant will.

And all this info is basically cribbed from one Forbes article, and two articles in the Economist. Not exactly bastions of left-wing liberal thought.

Offense is taken, not given. So if you are offended by me directly quoting your god, Lee Atwater, it's not me being offensive, it is you being in denial about your true origins.