He’s back – and the guard rails are off. Like it or not – and there are all kinds of psephological caveats – it is now certain that Donald J Trump will be running the United States for the next four years. If I were a Ukrainian, I would be very worried indeed.
Why did Trump win? “The economy, stupid”, to use the cliche. To use the most lurid claims of his opponents, America has re-elected a man branded by Kamala Harris as a “fascist” to the White House. If democracy itself was on the ballot, then a depressingly large number of Americans chose to reject it.
