Personality likes and dislikes aside, and now that the US electorate has decided, should we care about Trump’s stunning victory? Trump’s strategy was informed, it seems, by a visceral instinct about the unhappiness of middle America, the desire to choose someone to "shake things up" over the ultimate insider establishment figure. His unexpected victory speaks volumes about the partisanship of Washington’s political-media complex, including pundits and pollsters, which proved not only wrong but apparently oblivious to the extent of the national disquiet. It shows that large numbers of Americans were hurting. As House majority leader Paul Ryan put it, Trump "heard voices other people weren’t hearing". The result says something about where America wants to go. Ironically, for a man who the bulk of the media agree ran on a negative, divisive campaign, Trump has successfully brought large numbers of Americans together under his banner. Will there be the same, promised sea-change now in A...
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