I spoke to Molly Ball for her Wall Street Journal piece published in the aftermath of Trump’s victory.
“I think we’ve learned this country has an appetite for what [Trump] represents,” said Liam Donovan, a GOP lobbyist. “A lot of Democrats convinced themselves that people don’t want it, that they were exhausted, that they wanted to turn the page. It’s not that they didn’t warn people or say ‘fascist’ loud enough,” he said. “People understood what they were getting and decided they wanted more of that and it was worth the risk.”
Read the full piece here.