Yascha Mounk

Reality check: why the Democrats lost

Credit: Luke Farookhi 
issue 09 November 2024

For the past decade, Donald Trump has been the most famous and influential man on the planet. But he had too many failures and electoral defeats to his name to be able to claim he dominated a whole political era. That changed on Tuesday night.

Trump will be remembered as both the 45th and the 47th President of the United States.

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