IT HAS BECOME a cliche of liberal editorialising to demand that voters repudiate Donald Trump's populist platform as well as the president himself. Wherever the final vote tallies land, it will be hard to argue that they have.At the time of writing, Mr Trump looked on course to lose his reelection bid with the second-highest number of votes ever recorded. He seemed to have achieved that feat mainly by turning out the most characteristic parts of his coalition in force. White working-class men, in particular, cemented the Republicans' hold on some of the territory he took for them in 2016. Mahoning County in Ohio-which is dominated by hardscrabble Youngstown, whose construction sites your columnist visited on the trail-went Republican for the first time since 1972.
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