The failure of the counterfeit left to understand Donald Trump’s presidential victory was lamentably evident in Tim Walz’s response the following day. The defeated Democrats’ vice-presidential candidate said: “It’s hard to understand why so many of our fellow citizens - people that we have fought so long and hard for - wound up choosing the other path.” The message was clear: how could you do this, you ungrateful shower of knuckle-draggers?

How did they think this was all going to end? They’d been given fair warning more than eight years ago that America’s working-class communities and its most marginalised minorities had grown weary of those who had purported to represent them. Look again at some of those numbers.

Rodney David, a former Republican congressman, offered the Democrats some advice. “They need to take a step back and look at Ansen County in North Carolina. It’s a 40% black county and Donald Trump won it. So, when Democrats call Donald Trump racist and Republicans racist, why don’t you have a little self-reflection and look at Ansen County and understand there are a lot more issues that are important to Americans all throughout this country, that have given him what may be a landslide victory.”

If Kamala Harris’s campaign team hadn’t been so out of touch with the preferences of real people in working-class communities they might have divined something valuable: How could so many in the poor Latino communities have voted for a man who describes some of their countries of origin in such disgustingly dehumanising ways? Well, it might help if you in........

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