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Then comes the insurmountable: Trump’s “grab-em by the pussy” remarks, which emerged Friday, are repulsive enough to have put him out of contention for the presidency. His catastrophic performance Sunday, during which he stood for an extended period directly behind Clinton, scowling and looking vaguely predatory, compounded the harm. His outrageous threat to jail his opponent, which he repeated Monday, completes the picture. Trump has gone full Mussolini.

But Trumpism is bigger than the man. For evidence, juxtapose a map of the two parties’ current support, with one of regional income distribution.

The safe red (Republican) states swing from the Deep South (Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina) northward in a band through the Midwest (Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota), and into the upper Midwest. These are also the regions with the highest concentrations of Americans living below the poverty line (about $24,000 for a family of four).

The key swing states (Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania), where Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders launched their respective insurgencies, are regions where traditional economies have been disrupted by globalization. Hence Trump’s repeated promises to “bring back our jobs,” resurrect heavy manufacturing and re-open shuttered steel mills. He’s giving voters in populous, influential states precisely the comfort they want to hear.

That it is purest fantasy, impossible given the reality of global trade and the catastrophic consequences of interrupting such trade, is almost beside the point. Trump has given voice to a new constituency. That he is personally unfit to be president is a historical fluke. His losing next month will not prevent states such as Ohio or Pennsylvania from going full nativist in future, unless more people there can see the hope of a better economic future.

Clinton and her running mate, Tim Kaine, have a run a fine campaign so far, if the objective is simply to destroy the Trump-Pence ticket (or let it destroy itself). But their very success raises questions about what they’re doing now to prepare for the day after victory.

A future President Hillary Clinton will need something like a Marshall Plan — a New Deal might be a better term — to bring hope to the Rust Belt. Or she’ll face another revolt in four years, likely led by someone more personally fit, and capable, than Trump.