He came to a perspective that there is a division by social class in the United States between what he calls the "front row kids" and the "back row kids", with knowledge workers, including many people in American media, in the "front row", and most of the poor and working-class people in the "back row"; he explained the victory of Donald Trump as being due to Trump's articulation of the unmet needs, and unheard voice and hopelessness, of the "back row kids" and Democrats' failures to hear or address the needs of most Americans due to the Democratic leadership being "front row kids" themselves. When Trump accepted the nomination as the Republican candidate for the 2016 United States presidential election, Arnade was in Ohio, but not at the convention; he was in a strip club in Parma, a working-class suburb of Cleveland, watching people celebrate.