2026-11-13 · The Guardian
Rightwing governments such as Donald Trump’s may have been struggling for many months, having made countless impossible or incompatible promises and strategic blunders, and opinion polls may have been consistently pointing towards a meltdown, but their actual election defeats are seen as miracles: unexpected moments of joy in the morning news, often followed over subsequent months by a creeping conviction that the right’s supremacy will inevitably return. assertive