Sara Wallace Goodman, associate professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine, agrees that Obama’s two-term presidency might have pushed voters toward Trump. “There is a feeling in the U.S. that there has been an excess of liberalism,” she says. “People want to take back what was rightfully theirs and for some that includes taking back the color of the presidency.”

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