What Is the Best Way to Explain Trump's Vote?

The idea that the left pushes otherwise sensible, normy liberals and centrist into the arms of the far right has been a trope for decades. It really became its own sub genre take with the rise of Trump in 2015 and 2016. Daniel Denver: The narrative is attractive to extreme centrist pundits and politicians because it washes the hands of the neoliberalized Democratic Party and old Republican establishment of any culpability for making MAGA a reality. Instead, conveniently, it blames us, their political opponents on the left.