Chris McGreal finds a mood of defiance among those resisting the US president-elect. But there is also much soul-searching as Democrats look for ways to embrace voters failed by corporate America

The rhetoric is familiar. The demands to take the country back. The railing against an out-of-touch elite. The anger at a rigged economic system.

But now the insurgent cries that propelled Donald Trump to the White House have been taken up by stunned opponents as they try to galvanise anger and fear over his election into a strategy to resist his policies and remake the left as a credible political alternative.