Updates on the election for those of us...

[abaris]

I don't know that this is so much a victory for Trump as it is a big fuck you to business as usual.  People are going to be shocked by what their vote bought them.  Once you dispense with business as usual, you have to replace it with something.  Trump's somethings amount to a bunch of shit.  The country is going to learn that things can be worse than business as usual.

Of course it's meant to be a fuck you to the establishment. It remains to be seen what led to that kind of result. Is it the angry white men celebrating one last victory or is it because moderates couldn't be arsed to even vote? Congress ist sill in Republican hands also and that doesn't sound well for the world at large, since they will jump at the chance to roll back on all the reforms Obama set in motion. Tough times, I guess, for everyone not being a white religious straight male. Tough times for the world, since the last straw for climate change not turning into a catastrophe just went out of the window.

What it means for the world economy as well as the foreign policy, noone can say at this moment. But why shouldn't Trump go through with what he said before the election if he got the chance to rule more or less without opposition?