Adam Shatz is joined by Jamelle Bouie and Deborah Friedell to pick through the results and implications of Trump’s victory. The US has a booming economy of high wages and nearly full employment, yet economic discontent, particularly around inflation, has been one of the more popular explanations for the election result. As well as considering the importance of inflation, Jamelle and Deborah look at what went wrong with the Harris campaign’s big bet on abortion rights, why Republican-voting women say they feel safer under Trump and why the Democrats’ insistence that democracy was on the ballot failed to resonate with many voters.

Read Adam Tooze on the Democrats' defeat in the LRB:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n22/adam-tooze/the-democrats-defeat

Read Deborah Friedell on J.D. Vance

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n20/deborah-friedell/short-cuts

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