Duane Hall didn’t let party leaders push him out. So the voters threw him out.

Hall’s handling of sexual harassment accusations smacked of Trump. Hall denied ever doing anything wrong. He attacked the women who spoke up. He attacked the media as having a “personal vendetta” against him.

Only 27 percent of the primary voters bought it.

Conventional wisdom, mine included, thought Hall would win because he was the incumbent and had more money. Wrong. In retrospect, once Hall refused to resign, he had only one way to save himself: Apologize, atone and ask for forgiveness. Instead, he attacked.

Allison Dahle had a shoestring budget, but a lot of shoe leather. She and her team canvassed the district and worked the polling places. (It looks like Hall had to pay his poll workers.) How good was Dahle’s team? While everybody else was waiting Tuesday night for the trucks to arrive at the elections board, her volunteers picked up unofficial results from every precinct. They knew early that she was winning big.

It was a triumph of grassroots politics, an end to Hall’s once-promising political career and a warning to all male politicians.