The fact is that the supposedly progressive left and its liberal allies have enabled him to swoop into places like East Palestine because they themselves have long abandoned the working-class folk who live there. If you are horrified by Trump, then you should be even more aghast at the progressives who created him.

Regular working Americans have been ignored, betrayed and impoverished over the past few decades. And the very party who for years promised to help them is now fiddling while those communities burn – literally, in the case of the Ohio explosion.