Trump's victory represents a historic protest vote, no more and no less

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Now Trump needs to address the passions he has unleashed.
44% : For the first time since the late 1800s, the party in power has lost three US presidential elections in a row (including Trump in 2020).
43% : For the Republicans to break the pattern of anti-incumbency in the next round of elections, Trump needs to be a true disrupter and shift the balance of power away from the big corporations and the established rich.
41% : But Trump is the first in this line to reach the White House since McKinley, suggesting populist frustration is at the highest level since the 19th century.
34% : Trump follows a long line of anti-establishment and anti-global populists that dates back to President William McKinley in the 1890s and runs through the radio priest Charles "Father" Coughlin in the 1930s, senator Joe McCarthy in the 1950s, and presidential candidates of more recent decades such as Barry Goldwater, Ross Perot and Sarah Palin.

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