Chris LaCivita, Trump’s campaign manager, had the obvious retort. “Flawless campaigns don’t lose,” LaCivita told The New York Times. “You can run a great campaign—you can run a good campaign—and still lose. But you can’t run a flawless campaign and lose.”

Newsweek Senior Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer claims the Democrats lost the US election because they pandered to the “vocal but ultimately tiny” portion of the American electorate.