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From Trump’s victory, a simple, inescapable message: many people despise the left | John Harris

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Donald Trump ’s political comeback has many reasons to do with how politics now works, and who voters think of when they enter the polling booth.

The most vivid element is about the left, and one inescapable fact: that a lot of people simply do not like us.

It goes some way to explaining why more than 75 million voters rejected the supposedly progressive option, and chose a convicted criminal and unabashed insurrectionist to oversee their lives.

A message about the left then travels from one part of society to another: there is a transmission belt between clarion calls that do the rounds on college campuses and the Democratic mainstream.

And the right can therefore make hay, as evidenced by a Trump ad that was crass and cruel, but grimly effective: “ Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you” In its own ugly way, that line highlights what might have been Trump 's strongest asset: the idea that, because they are so distant and privileged, modern progressives would rather ignore questions about everyday economics.

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69

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