The message from the 2020 election? The US still stands divided Martin Kettle
over 3 years in The guardian
Visceral complaints about being left behind and dismissed remain. Trump spoke to them in ways that Biden did not
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Few saw this knife-edge US election result coming. But we can’t say we weren’t warned. Overall, the 2020 election bears a striking resemblance to the one that took so many by surprise four years ago. The belief that 2020 would be decisively different from 2016 turns out to have been based on a very human but ultimately very foolish triumph of hope over experience. In politics, we have been reminded, hope is not power.
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