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Never a truer word written: Trumpism is not a passing fad. Ignore the ‘forgotten men and women’ at your peril — Miranda Devine, Sunday Telegraph

Even in Australia friends avoided the topic for fear of social ostracism. Only in the remaining oasis of democracy, the polling booth, did the silenced majority feel free to express themselves. That’s what you get when you silence dissent with political correctness, when you ban speakers from university campuses, make social status dependent on virtue-­signalling, traduce religious conservatives, and stack your media organisations with groupthink elitists

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The unbearable smugness of the press

The audience for our glib analysis and contempt for much of the electorate, it turned out, was rather limited. This was particularly true when it came to voters, the ones who turned out by the millions to deliver not only a rebuke to the political system but also the people who cover it. Trump knew what he was doing when he invited his crowds to jeer and hiss the reporters covering him. They hate us, and have for some time.

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