Labor won’t make Kamala Harris’ mistakes against Trump,ALP boss says

Labor won’t make Kamala Harris’ mistakes against Trump,ALP boss says

In a closed door briefing for MPs,Labor’s national secretary outlined how the party would avoid the pitfalls of the Democrats’ celebrity-heavy campaign.

  • byJames Massola

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Making the Democrats great again might require a dash of Trumpism

Making the Democrats great again might require a dash of Trumpism

How to respond to Trump’s triumph recalls how the Democrats answered Reagan. Bill Clinton’s election-winning shift had Reaganite notes,but what made for good politics often made for terrible policy.

  • byNick Bryant
Trump’s win surprised many. But the real shock would have been if he’d lost

Trump’s win surprised many. But the real shock would have been if he’d lost

Last week,a historically unpopular government got thrown out of office. Despite what many pundits are suggesting,there is nothing extraordinary about that.

  • byWaleed Aly
How the deluded Democrats were trumped. It’s the democracy,stupid

How the deluded Democrats were trumped. It’s the democracy,stupid

It turns out that Democrat voters’ definition of the threat to democracy was completely different to Republicans’. But voters preferred Trump’s version.

  • byPeter Hartcher
‘Trump proofing’ begins as Democrats face power vacuum

‘Trump proofing’ begins as Democrats face power vacuum

Some Democratic governors are moving to inoculate their states from Trump’s policies,raising their profiles as the party searches for a new leader.

  • byCleve R. Wootson Jr.,Marianna Sotomayor andTyler Pager
How Trump exposed the Democrats’ mistaken identity politics

How Trump exposed the Democrats’ mistaken identity politics

More Americans ended up voting for Trump,even though many didn’t like him. Why? Because they liked the Democratic Party less.

  • byMaureen Dowd
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‘We are well prepared’:Jim Chalmers says not to panic over Trump victory

‘We are well prepared’:Jim Chalmers says not to panic over Trump victory

As the treasurer moves to calm economic fears after Trump’s victory,AUKUS fan and former secretary of state Mike Pompeo has been snubbed for a White House job.

  • byMatthew Knott
A ‘sinkhole for grievance’,Trump made the men I grew up with feel heard

A ‘sinkhole for grievance’,Trump made the men I grew up with feel heard

As a young white man who grew up in America’s rural south,I understand the people Trump was courting. Despite working for Kamala Harris,on paper,I’m one of them.

  • byCory Alpert
Trump completes battleground sweep as Biden prepares to host him at the White House

Trump completes battleground sweep as Biden prepares to host him at the White House

Donald Trump has won the vote in Arizona,giving him all seven battleground states that were considered tight contests in the election.

  • byFarrah Tomazin
Shock election result ignites conspiracy theories on left and right

Shock election result ignites conspiracy theories on left and right

While unusual for opposing political camps to create conspiracy theories from the same material,supporters of both sides have fixated on Democrats’ underperformance.

  • byStuart A. Thompson
My two weeks on the road with Donald Trump

My two weeks on the road with Donald Trump

Following the president-elect’s camp,it often looked like the wheels were coming off. But maybe his team knew something the rest of us didn’t.

  • byMichael Koziol