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In her post-election column, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan described the mood of Hillary supporters as one of “enraged mourning,” an excellent description for the emotional and often irrational reactions to Trump’s win we’ve all seen in the news and social media. My favourite was the New York woman who decided to make herself and daughter the focal point of her family’s Christmas card, relegating her husband and son to a sidebar frame, in order “to reaffirm her place in the world.”

And yet not all Democrats were unhappy to see Hillary lose.

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We’ve heard a great deal about the “lesser-of-two-evils” voters on the respectable right who regarded Trump with such distaste they voted for Hillary. What we haven’t heard so much about are those on the alt-left — the diehard Bernie Sanderites — who actually preferred to see a loose cannon like Trump win rather than vote for establishment-symbolic Hillary. They are not fringe or few; they are legion. If they had all voted for Hillary, she might have won. But they didn’t. And they are, overwhelmingly, young.