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push to implement a radical trans agenda and the priorities of woke identity politics struck so many voters as so completely mad that Trump had permission to say or do anything in opposition. It wasn’t so much Trump who made the idea of mass deportation mainstream as the Biden-Harris insistence on creating a border crisis and denying that it was happening.

Also, a crucial backdrop for Trump’s success was the broader economic discontent, as well as Joe Biden’s sheer unpopularity.

All is flux, so perhaps 2024 won’t be replicable, but, for now, Trump has shown that demographics isn’t destiny. His right-wing populism has made inroads among a broad range of voter groups, while Kamala Harris — an emblem of progressivism’s cultural obsessions — picked up among college-educated whites and among seniors.

Who looks like the future now?

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

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