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The New Statesman

Like Thatcherism, Donald Trump is here to stay

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Kamala Harris was the ideal candidate for Donald Trump : a West Coast liberal lawyer with a rictus smile.

She had nothing to say to Americans disillusioned by economic hardship, alarmed by immigration and the porous southern border, and alienated by identity liberalism.

Trump 's long, tedious, erratic victory speech there was praise for the “super genius” Elon Musk and a bizarre appearance on stage by the golfer Bryson DeChambeau .

Vance , once a Never Trumper, embodies the contradictions of the Maga movement.

It seeks to encompass both the Silicon Valley libertarianism of Musk and Peter Thiel .

The academic Patrick Deneen wrote: “The institutionalisation of the libertarian ethos in both the economic and social domains has globally ravaged the working classes, leaving them simultaneously in a condition of economic precarity and social disintegration.