explanations

But each of these explanations ignores the more intriguing possibility: that there is something afoot in metropolitan America drawing voters toward Donald Trump.

Others we spoke to - among them Home Secretaries and Immigration Ministers including Suella Braverman, Robert Jenrick and Damian Green, as well as senior civil servants and key government insiders - had their own explanations.

There have been many explanations offered for Trump’s resounding victory but for some there is one thing that stands out.

The explanations for this new rightward lean are coming in as fast and hot as the Santa Ana winds: Machismo.

A few liberals, in the hours after the election, indulged conspiratorial explanations for why Harris underperformed compared to Biden’s 2020 victory, but none with any stature and certainly none who hold higher elected office.