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Trumpism isn’t dead. The battle for free democracies just got harder

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It’s been a difficult week for democracy. In a world chock-full of dictators, authoritarians, populists and predators, the land of the free made a spectacle of itself, and not entirely in a good way.

From China and Russia to the Middle East, anti-democrats laughed scornfully or looked for advantage as the US president trashed his own country’s election, denouncing it as the heist of the century.

Let’s take the positives first. Americans voted in huge numbers, exhibiting impressive faith in the democratic process. Joe Biden’s personal haul of about 74 million votes smashed Barack Obama’s record, set in 2008. Total turnout was put at 160 million, or 67%, the highest in 120 years.

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After so much uncertainty, one thing is certain: Trump will continue to cry foul, traduce Biden as he traduced Obama and Hillary Clinton before him, exploit division, and fan discontent. With over 69 million voters at his back, he will remain America’s disrupter-in-chief.

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In short, Trump’s absolutist leadership has set a terrible example, not only for Americans but for a watching world.

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Most European governments privately wanted to see the back of him. They hope the Biden presidency will bring a return to consensus-building on issues such as the climate crisis, will revive transatlanticism, and reboot the rules-based international order to help contain China and deter Russia.

Exceptions may be Boris Johnson’s government, which relied on Trump’s help on Brexit, and conservative-led Poland and Hungary.

Yet Europeans will be fooling themselves if they think Trump’s humbling signals the defeat, either in America or abroad, of the politics of fear or the antagonistic beliefs and hateful prejudices he peddles and personifies.

Trumpism is far from vanquished. The global battle for free and equal democratic societies is unending. In fact, it just intensified.

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