Donald Trump could not have won the presidency in 2016 were it not for what happened eight years before: the global financial meltdown. To this day, political elites do not grasp how the crisis shattered Americans' perceptions of their economic security. This top-level failure has gradually claimed the Republican Party as we've known it since the Reagan era. On Tuesday, the same failure claimed the Democratic Party as we've known it since the Bill Clinton era.
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