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The real threat to liberalism will come after Trump

US liberals have not had to contend with the fusion of populist ideas and operational nous. That luck seems unlikely to last.

Janan Ganesh

These are far from certain to be Donald Trump’s last months in the White House. The US President’s deficit in national and state polls is daunting but recoverable. His opponent, Joe Biden, has profited from an inconspicuousness that cannot last until the November election.

Before the coronavirus pandemic, Mr Trump’s impatience with detail and bureaucratic process had benign results.  AP

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Janan Ganesh is the principal political columnist for the Financial Times.

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