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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

‘Bad things can happen’: how will the world adjust to the Trump presidency?

Donald Trump at an event in Phoenix, Arizona on 22 December.
Donald Trump at an event in Phoenix, Arizona on 22 December. Photograph: Cheney Orr/Reuters

“A revisionist state has arrived on the scene to contest the liberal international order, and it is not Russia or China, it is the United States. It is Trump in the Oval Office, the beating heart of the free world. The incoming administration contests every element of the liberal international order – trade, alliances, migration, multilateralism, democratic solidarity and human rights.

“The narrative now at home and abroad is that the US is not what we thought it was. Trump was not an aberration, not a bug, but a feature of American politics and of America’s story.”

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