At a campaign rally in the state of Wisconsin just days before yesterday’s United States presidential elections, former US president and current president-elect Donald Trump registered his displeasure with a faulty microphone: “I get so angry. I’m up here seething. I’m seething. I’m working my ass off with this stupid mic.”

The situation was so enraging, in fact, that it drew the additional soundbite from Trump: “Do you want to see me knock the hell out of people backstage?”

Now, there is no doubt Trump is a very angry person; just look at, well, everything he has ever said about his ubiquitous enemies, be they Democrats, immigrants, members of “the radical left” – or microphones. And, as his self-described “magnificent victory” against his Democratic opponent Kamala Harris in this election demonstrates, a whole lot of Americans are angry, too.

Despite obviously belonging to America’s financial super-elite, the billionaire Trump has wooed a wide sector of the domestic working class into viewing him as a saviour from their economic plight in a plutocratic system of which he himself is an integral part. The indignant appeal to “Make America Great Again” deliberately ignores the fact that there was never anything........

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