Don’t blame the American electorate – blame the Democratic Party. That, sadly, is the most useful way to understand the outcome of the US policy-free, presidential election.

Like Brexit supporters in Britain, those most economically disadvantaged under the Democrats in 12 of the last 16 years voted against what they saw as an unfair system.

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They endured inequality at home and watched expensive and pointless US wars abroad. In response, they elected a man whose psychological condition makes him a danger to the world.

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Trump’s election was helped by the Democratic Party, which is not particularly democratic.

It is just a front for big business. In the past three elections it has hand-picked its candidate, rather than trust party members.

Bernie Sanders was sidelined for Hillary Clinton and later for Joe Biden, so that the Democrats’ billionaire backers would have a candidate whom they could control.

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