Clearly, the Democrats have learnt nothing from 2016. Given that almost half of American voters are considering voting for Trump next week, labelling them ‘garbage’ is not exactly a smart move. Then again, the Democratic elites have never tried to make a secret of their disdain for blue-collar people. Over the past few months, they have been busy trying to paint anyone remotely Trump-curious as literally a Nazi. This ludicrous and historically illiterate campaign came to a head last weekend, when Harris’s VP pick, Tim Walz, explicitly compared Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally to a pro-Hitler rally that was held in the same venue in the 1930s.

At this point, there’s no hiding the Dems’ contempt for Trump supporters. They have nothing in common with the largely working-class, non-college-educated Americans who care more about the economy, immigration and violent crime than they do climate change, defunding the police or ‘trans rights’. Joe Biden’s ‘garbage’ gaffe has simply made this anti-democratic snobbery plain for all to see.