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How Trump made the biggest political comeback possible

The sad thing about this dispiriting election campaign, though, is that it hasn’t clarified America’s problems, but deepened them.

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Donald Trump’s election victory marks the greatest political comeback in modern history. The last successful attempt to come back from a re-election loss was Grover Cleveland, who was denied re-election in 1888 before rebounding in 1892.

Donald Trump at an election rally in North Carolina, the first crucial swing state that he won.  Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Tom Switzer is executive director at the Centre for Independent Studies and is an outgoing presenter on ABC Radio National.
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