Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you the American people.”

So began Donald Trump’s final campaign commercial: a populist paean replete with familiar denunciations of political insiders, globalism, and illegal immigration.

This was the rhetorical essence of one half of Trumpism as we’ve come to know it over the past year: a narrative of grievance, loss, and decay coupled with the promise of national renewal and outraged censure of the political and economic establishments.