Members of the ruling elite have a seemingly unlimited capacity to misunderstand populist movements. Like polar bears in an ice age, they benefit from the problems that are ruining the lives of others. Unlike the polar bears, they created the problems that are ruining the lives of others.

Populism doesn’t come raining down on the Jeb Bushes and Hillary Clintons of the world because of random bad luck. Populism is always an equal and opposite reaction to actions that harm ordinary people. In this case, globalization — which is great for giant corporations, the politicians they fund, and the media outlets they own, but bad for ordinary people — is the culprit. Hence, the freak out.

Well done, John Kasich … You can sleep well knowing that you helped a possible felon under FBI investigation win the election.

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It’s good to be a polar bear like John Kasich. He has the luxury of being outraged by Donald Trump. There’s pretty much no trade deal on Earth that can outsource his job as governor of Ohio. Kasich announced yesterday through his spokesman that he broke his promise to support the Republican nominee and wrote in Arizona Sen. John McCain for president.

As a powerful millionaire whose next job is just a few rich donors away, Kasich is completely unaffected by the stagnant economy, Obamacare, and high taxes. Maybe he’ll get the Social Security from the program he paid into and maybe he won’t. His job won’t be sent overseas, and his wages won’t be driven down by cheap labor.

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Because of all that, John Kasich has the luxury of basing his vote on tiny, inconsequential things. Donald Trump used cold, prickly rhetoric. Gasp. I can’t vote for him. Donald Trump said something that the mainstream media spun as xenophobic. Gasp. I can’t vote for him. Those are the sort of issues you have the luxury of worrying about when Obama’s America isn’t kicking your butt — and then issuing a press release promising to raise your butt-kickings by 116 percent in the next fiscal year.

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Consider the unemployed guy who lost his job because a free trade deal let the company he worked for send his job from Ohio, which has labor laws, to a third-world country where someone destitute will do it for $9 a month. You think that guy bases his vote on whether Donald Trump’s answer to some debate question was nuanced enough?

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How about the middle-class couple who can barely make ends meet because they don’t qualify for Obamacare subsidies and they’re forced to pay insane premiums for terrible plans with giant deductibles? If Clinton wins this election, their already unaffordable premiums are going to more than double. You think that couple worries about how Donald Trump allegedly hurt Alicia Machado’s feelings two decades ago?

Well done, John Kasich. You just showed your moral superiority by voting for a neocon who will be 100 percent pro-whatever war anybody comes up with. You can sleep well knowing that you helped a possible felon under FBI investigation win the election because the stakes aren’t high for you like they are for the common American — who doesn’t have the luxury of soaring high above the toxic policies Washington keeps dumping on the middle class.

Kasich’s vote was absolutely perfect because a vote for ruling-class globalist John McCain is the ultimate endorsement of the swamp and all of its muck.

Remember McCain’s horrible economic plan from his disastrous 2008 presidential campaign?

“John McCain believes that globalization is an opportunity for American workers today and in the future,” his campaign’s plan read. “Ninety-five percent of the world’s customers lie outside our borders and we need to be at the table when the rules for access to those markets are written. To do so, the U.S. should engage in multilateral, regional, and bilateral efforts to reduce barriers to trade, [and] level the global playing field.”

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Wrong. Globalization is an opportunity for U.S. corporations to replace expensive American workers without losing access to American consumers.

My only question is: If John Kasich wanted to vote for a pro-globalization, anti-job, corporate-funded, pro-amnesty neocon who has been in politics their entire adult life — why didn’t he just vote for Hillary Clinton?

In the end though, it doesn’t matter who Kasich voted for. Between the Bernie revolution on the Left and the Trump revolution on the Right, the plutocrats are done in this country. Trump won 10 times as many delegates as Kasich and coasted to the nomination with the entire system throwing everything it had at him. The new ABC poll shows 86 percent of Republicans supporting him, and among independents he leads Clinton by an astounding 29 percent. If Trump loses, and we get Hillary for president because ruling-class Republicans like Jeb, Paul Ryan, and John Kasich don’t approve of Trump’s manners, once-promising careers will suddenly be over.

Populist movements don’t end until the power-abusers have fallen.

Eddie Zipperer is an assistant professor of political science for Georgia Military College and a regular LifeZette contributor.