At the end of a devastating week for Republican election hopes, many Democrats felt that all that was left to do was refer to Michelle Obama’s emotional evisceration of Donald Trump and shrug: “What she said.”
“The speech that she gave, I think put into words what so many people are feeling,” Hillary Clinton told Ellen DeGeneres, after urging a landslide victory on November 8 as a “rebuke of all the bigotry and bullying”.