Donald Trump’s victory was resounding. His second term will be, too

Lee Drutman was quoted in the Economist on negative partisanship in the presidential election.

Democrats also believed, wrongly, that wavering voters would spurn Mr Trump because of his conduct on January 6th 2021, when a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol in order to overturn his defeat in the recent presidential election. What politicians call negative partisanship, or the contempt for the other side, is especially potent in America’s two-party system. “The doom loop is real and getting worse. It was an extremely nasty and ugly election…yet people voted for Trump largely because he was the Republican,” says Lee Drutman of the New America Foundation, a left-leaning think-tank.