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Trump’s triumph is a disaster for virtue-signalling elites

Trump’s triumph is a disaster for virtue-signalling elites

For Europe and the West’s Left-wing elites, the scale of Trump’s triumph, and the fact that his team is much more professional this time, is an existential disaster, the greatest blow since Brexit.

Donald Trump’s brand of populist, multi-racial, working-class, highly online, right-wing politics has captured the new centre ground. 

Allister Heath

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America is now Trump country, at war with progressivism, open borders, international bureaucracies, net zero, Jihadism, military adventurism and the left-wing media. The old order is dead, never to be resuscitated; for better or for worse, American politics has finally caught up with globalisation, deindustrialisation, the resurrection of history (contra Francis Fukuyama) and the internet’s explosive rise.

Donald Trump is 78, but he is a very modern politician with an intuitive grasp of how social fragmentation and the rise and fall of institutions can work for him. He has learnt to bypass network news and The New York Times. His brand of populist, multi-racial, working-class, highly online, right-wing politics has captured the new centre ground.

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