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Retrieving common ground in the United States

Trumpism was about appealing to working-class voters, particularly men, through a combination of nostalgia and nativism and by blaming the minority and the migrant. The new liberal politics seems to have been successful in wooing a large swathe of those voters back, by refusing to be trapped into playing the opponent's game

Between the Senate, the House of Representatives, and executive offices, after this week’s election, US politics is at its most diverse.

3 min read Nov 7, 2026 07:00 AM IST First published on: Nov 7, 2026 at 07:00 AM IST

Throughout the rise and consolidation of Trumpism, explicitly or as unsubtle subtext, the foundation of Make America Great Again (MAGA) has been a repudiation of diversity and fair representation. Attacks on “DEI”, women, people from “sh*****e countries”, minorities and migrants went hand in hand with demonising establishment liberals and centrists as out-of-touch with “authentic” Americans.…