Yascha Mounk: “Back in 2016, the whiff of aberration hung over Trump’s success. His opponents could claim that his victory was some strange historical fluke. They could put it down to foreign interference or to Russian hackers. Political scientists confidently pronounced that he represented the final, Pyrrhic victory of a declining electorate—the last, desperate stand of the old, white man.” “But aberrations tend not to happen twice, and 2024 puts the last nail in the coffin of that distorted interpretation.”