By choosing to overlook his attempts to stop the transfer of power to Mr Biden in 2020, voters have shown how wrong that conclusion was. Instead they have endorsed Mr Trump’s unbounded exploitation of partisanship as the basis of his politics, including the slander of his opponents as corrupt and treacherous. **This has spread a cynicism and despair about the merits of government that may serve him, but will not serve America’s democracy. **MAGA is a movement of iconoclasm against the kind of benign internationalists who occupied the White House for 70 years. This week a majority of voters embraced it with their eyes open.