Even as they heavily deploy their American foot-soldiers to try to steal the Presidential election from Donald Trump, the British are expressing their grave concern that they have a deeper problem which is not going away. As David Smith, the D.C. correspondent for the London Guardian wrote yesterday: “Regardless of the U.S. presidential election outcome, Trumpism lives on.”
Smith’s piece serves as a frank admission that there is a broad, nationalist movement that Trump has mobilized which, despite everything thrown against it, remains aggressively anti-Establishment. The article begins by admitting that the Democratic (and British) hopes of an early sweep, as the polls were “predicting,” were dashed at the outset. They had hoped that this “would result in a quick, clean and overwhelming repudiation of the 45th President…. But on another miserable night for pollsters, it did not turn out that way. Trump proved resilient and increased his vote in Florida, Texas and other states. He found even more white working-class voters than last time and chipped away at Democratic support among Latinos. His cult-of-personality campaign rallies were as enthusiastic and rambunctious as ever.”
