We are dependent on the “leader of the free world”, so our government, like many others, will have to hold its nose over President Trump.
No doubt sales of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America will be going through the roof. Much energy will now go into the post-mortem of the US presidential election and the analysis of the social frustrations and anti-establishment forces that it has unleashed. But what happens next in the rest of the world?
The markets will go crazy and apocalyptic memes will flood Twitter. In Britain, there will be much hand-wringing and expressions of deep …read more
Source: New Statesman
