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What I am seeing watching this election is one candidate who is, historically speaking, center right and is using the processes of State to serve a chunk of the elite, while serving as the head of a party who represent a certain percentage of said elite with a more or less realistic view of domestic and international realities. Their voter block is inline with the long, historical influence of the manufactured civil society generated propaganda.
Then there is the other candidate, who represents the other percentage of the elite - primarily by representing all the od Id-like projections of the mob they cultivate via fear and misinformation of a particular sort. They seem out of touch with the actual failures of the sitting president - but project their own fears onto him - radical islam, the appearance of weakness, racial fears, etc. - that have very little basis in reality except as it is perceived and manufactured in their particular cultivated voter block.
Both of these parties serve the top elites and the secondary elites who have a realistic routes to become big dogs themselves. The People are just tools to these people.
All that said, I refuse to be cynical about it because, if the People perceive it correctly (or a certain well placed minority of the same do), we can always play one side of the elite off the other for our own purposes - a version of blindsight the elite generally doesn't see. It's always useful to use the greed of the second tier elite against the top elites.
Historically, e.g. FDR was one such person - and was forever seen as the scion of the elite class and we've watched a sixty odd year attempt by the older and former top of the elite to rollback the changes that FDR instituted to allow the then 2nd tier elites to gain the advantage.