It seemed to liberals that Trumpism arrived in 2016 without any intellectual backing or much of a policy script. Trump, like Brexit, was treated as a symptom of sustained economic dysfunction rather than the harbinger of a new future. In his campaign against Bush for the Republican nomination in 1992, Buchanan drew on a number of tropes that would come back to haunt American politics. We shall break the clock of the New Deal … We shall repeal the 20th century. Talk radio provided part of the answer, channelling and fuelling the white male rage that was becoming an increasingly prominent force in American politics.