Trump’s Iowa win marks a comeback for him and a step backwards for the country

In the end, Iowa, as was much predicted, went for the original packaging - by a landslide

The Illinois governor, JB Pritzker, who was in Iowa on Monday night as a surrogate for the Biden-Harris campaign, may have summed up the night the best. Tonight's contest," Pritzker said, is simply a question of whether you like your Maga Trump agenda wrapped in the original packaging, or with high heels or lifts in their boots".

Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian US columnist

Lloyd Green is an attorney in New York and served in the US Department of Justice from 1990 to 1992

Bhaskar Sunkara is the president of the Nation, the founding editor of Jacobin, and the author of The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequalities

Ben Davis works in political data in Washington DC. He worked on the data team for the Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign

Geoffrey Kabaservice is the director of political studies at the Niskanen Center in Washington DC as well as the author of Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party