Approx 1,000 protesters rallied in Louisville, Kentucky to register their concern about harmful rhetoric used by president-elect Trump. (Gregg Brekke/Flickr. Some rights reserved.)
Surely no one can possibly need reminding of this, but let's start by mentioning it anyway: 2016, the bad year that people love to say is bad, has seen two major electoral defeats for liberals and the left, one on either side of the Atlantic: the Brexit vote in June, and now President-Elect Trump's victory earlier this month. Aside from the feelings of dread, of horror, of absolute crushing disaster that these results have inspired in the losing side, one of the key things they have in common is that the majority of establishment political commentators just did not see them coming.
