No, @JLeslie, you don’t understand what I’m saying.
I think the American people have a taste for systemic change.
Conservatives were genuinely afraid of Obama because they thought he had a ticket to re-write the rule book. To shake up the race and class divisions in the United States and set the nation on a liberal course not seen since the Great Society of Lyndon B. Johnson. Instead he pretty much ignored race and his greatest accomplishment was finally passing Hillarycare. Not insignificant, but not course changing.
Trump is not Republican.
Trump has hijacked the Republican party.
The Republican establishment loves Rubio. He’s status quo.
The Republican establishment can work with Cruz. They’ll take more than they give, if just barely.
Truth told, the Republican establishment hates and fears Trump more than the Democrats. Trump threatens the current Republican establishment’s very existence. Trump offers/threatens systemic change that follows no rule book, much less the Republican Establishment Party Line.
Back to the question, I think Obama had the opportunity to set the United States on the path of Change ala Bernie Sanders, and he either wasn’t up to the task, or he squandered it.
The taste for Change hasn’t gone away…it’s just manifesting itself in Donald Trump. If he becomes President, we honestly don’t know what he will do, and that’s the appeal. The American people know what the other buggers will do, and they’re tired of it.