The electoral coalition that Donald Trump forged last week was sensational – almost Disraelian in its marriage of the overclass and the working class. But it won’t last.
In 2002, researchers looked at American social trends and found an “emerging Democratic majority”. The party has lost as many presidential elections since then as it has won.
In 2019, when Britain’s Conservatives drew support from once-hostile industrial regions, serious people wondered if the Labour Party would ever win again. It did. At the next election. By a landslide.
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Janan Ganesh is the principal political columnist for the Financial Times.
