Since Donald Trump’s lopsided victory in the 2024 presidential election, there has been much talk – happily on the right, hauntingly on the left – of whether we have just witnessed a seismic event that rarely occurs in politics: a genuine and durable realignment of the electorate. While that term is based on art as much as science, just the fact that such a discussion is taking place among politicians and pundits suggests that this was arguably the most significant election in our lifetime – not just because the two candidates presented such opposite worldviews, but due to Trump’s sweep of all seven swing states that were up for grabs. The past and future president has almost singlehandedly forged a breathtaking reversal of party identities. Republicans, once viewed as the pro-war party of wealthy elitists, are now the anti-war party of the…
