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Former United States President Donald Trump benefitted from the lack of "good leadership" from “risk averse” politicians who looked towards polling to shape policies, says journalist Joe Hildebrand.

“What that ended up creating, I suppose, was a political class where all governments kind of look the same whether they were centre-right or centre-left and they stopped communicating with the people that elected them, they weren’t able to talk to people on the bottom of society,” Mr Hildebrand told Sky News host Cory Bernardi.

“So you saw, in America, screw you, you don’t know what you’re doing, you’re outsourcing our jobs, we’re going to go with Donald Trump; you saw in the UK where they didn’t like Theresa May’s each way bets on Brexit and they said no, we’re going to go with Boris Johnson.

“There was a political establishment that was forged out of this and they forgot to have good leadership, they forgot to talk to the base and the people frankly ended up hating them for it and started to look around elsewhere.”