One of the (very!) few pollsters who got the presidential election right, Patick Caddell, had this to say the day before the election: “The political battleground is no longer over ideology but instead is all about insurgency

Over 400 independents from 42 states signed onto a letter to President Elect Trump co-authored by Rick Robol of Independent Ohio and Jacqueline Salit, urging immediate steps to attend to the problem of partisanship in government.

I am an independent. Today, 42 percent of the country are independents. Being an independent is not just an electoral category. It’s a social category, a personal category. ..

“I was interested in gaining access to his blue collar white voters because I’ve always been concerned with that split between the interest of people of color and the white working class.”