Angry baby boomers voted for Trump because they thought the government didn't represent them. The truth is that the government represented no one but them. Boomers are so entitled that everything going their way read like nothing going their way.
Example: Obamacare. Southern and midwest voters were really, really mad about Obamacare and it brought them out to vote. Now that Trump is president, same thing is true... its just the reverse. Now voters come out to prevent the ACA from being repealed. Because Obamacare WAS representing the interests of those voters. Their perspective was so removed from reality that they couldn't see that.
Talk to a low-information Boomer and the same concept will come up again and again. "Common sense." When boomers say things like "government is inefficient, everyone knows that." What they're actually saying is, "government is inefficient, baby boomers agree on that." But the baby boomers are such a large and economically successful generation, and similar enough to GenX, that boomers have told themselves a story. And that story is, that all Americans (or all "real" Americans) are on the same page, and kids are different but everyone starts out protesting Vietnam and then you grow up and get more conservative. Right? Right.
So when Obama got elected, it was the first president in... I want to say, 20 years? That got elected by a generation other than boomers. So to them, no one elected Obama, because there's only one perspective. The "common sense" perspective. AKA the baby boomer perspective. So it must have been some kind of conspiracy or outside group that made this happen. Fox News molded that sentiment into fear and hatred by giving a name to that conspiracy; usually muslims, varies by the day. Left leaning boomers would have been vulnerable to the same tactics, but they don't generally watch fox news.
So when people said democrats/Hillary should have appealed to right leaning voters, I say, which right leaning voters? Young right leaning voters? Cause we do pretty well with that crowd. Old right leaning voters? Because there's nothing democrats could have done that would have helped there. The ACA was pretty much a direct bribe to Republican voters, and not only did they ignore the benefits till after Obama left office, but the Republicans also deflected the bribe by opting out of various programs at the state level. But sure, we can't help Republican voters at the federal level because of the state's rights dominated supreme court. OK, we'll help them at the loc... oh wait we never win local elections in red states. But that's OK, if we come up with an educated plan to help red states out, and we get experts saying that it will help them out, they'll vote blue. When hell freezes over.
Face it, Hillary could have been Reagan Rand Christ and Republicans wouldn't have voted for her. They were mad about Obama and they had to get it out of their system. When bloggers tried to explain the right's perspective to the left they would say "we have to have a plan to help the forgotten man!" And like... what does that even mean? That's not an issue or a policy. That's not legislation. That's a wish. They were calling Hillary out for not being a genie.