"West Virginia results show disaffection, not ideology, fuels Sanders and Trump"

From the linked article:

The success of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders is really not about ideology. It’s about disaffection.

Americans, collectively, are not as angry as watching cable TV would lead you to believe. But many poorer, less-educated folks who have been left behind in the 21st century—the ones who have seen their wages stagnate, their opportunities for upward mobility disappear and their life expectancies shorten—are looking to disrupt a status quo that has not worked for them.

That’s what Sanders and Trump are both promising to do.

And that’s the main reason why Bernie beat Hillary Clinton in yesterday’s West Virginia Democratic primary by 15.4 points. He carried every single county in the Mountaineer State, which by every metric has been left behind. (Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, won 77 percent of the vote in the uncontested GOP primary.)

Fewer than 1 in 5 Democratic primary voters in West Virginia identified as “very liberal,” tying Oklahoma for the lowest in any of this year’s contests. Yet Sanders carried both states. In fact, Sanders won among self-identified moderate-to-conservative Democrats in each.

So how did the septuagenarian socialist do it? The bottom line is most people are not voting for Bernie because he is liberal. They are voting for him because they perceive his promised “political revolution” as a challenge to the system that has failed them.

Only 26 percent of Democratic primary voters in West Virginia said they want the next president to continue Barack Obama’s policies. Clinton won that group by a more than 2-to-1 margin. Sanders won around two-thirds of voters who want the next president to pursue more liberal policies than Obama AND over half of voters who preferred more conservative policies. In Oklahoma, Sanders also won with those who rejected Obama’s policies as too liberal and those who said the president is too conservative.