Trump won. Some time ago, we had imagined the opposite on this same column. Not for lack of confidence in the resources of a character to say the least eccentric, but for over-estimate of the established power, which between Wall Street and gray corridors of Washington, we imagined armored.
Let me be clear: nobody has the naivety to believe Trump is completely external to the "system", but with good humility the idea that it is the symbol of a break should be accepted. Despite someone will say "It was all expected" o "Is part of an established plan", we have the impudence to support the opposite: "Trump won and nobody expected it".
America at the bottom is this: a "new" country with the oldest Constitution in the world, which although always equal to itself has often been capable of changes and conversions to 180 °. If in the 2008 the election of a black President tears tears and applauds to a West thirsty for collective goodness, now the wind changes and opens horizons to which the Western liberal democratic system led by USA, perhaps it is not even ready.
Beyond the domestic policy issues exposed in the future to the sole judgment of the Americans, the revolution arose with theelection day dell'8 November is traumatic because it brings to the leadership of the West a modus operandi which many thought of as buried. Trump's victory represents the end of politically correct, a scheme of thought and action that in an ideal bridge between the USA and Europe has forged the social behaviors and political coordinates of all the countries considered western by culture and tradition.
The concept is all the more valid the more we consider the incontestability of the triumph of Trump, not on the wool thread as for Bush in the 2000, but in a resounding way in some of the democratic strongholds where he was defeated.
Entering into the merits of the American vote leaves the time it finds. We limit ourselves to isolating a food for thought for the liberal world, which from the distribution of preferences is definitively confined to the high levels of education and income: despite until tonight system journalists continued to paint Trump's electorate as rich, elderly and surgically retouched, the vote tells us that entire industrial and rural basins of deep America are now far from what Clinton and her people represent.
Paradoxically, however, the most interesting aspect of the US 2016 election is not how it changes and will change America. Even if the relations with finance and the lobbies of Washington will be all to read in the next four years, what matters most is the reflection that the new American step will have on the rest of the world.
As was the case with Obama, the Western "right-thinking" world had shamelessly stood with Clinton; curiously more in Europe than in the US itself. A showdown is likely to come soon. Without the big brother DEM, what will happen to the social democracies (true or presumed) Atlanticist Old World? the pink wave that has swept the First World for a decade now, will it still mount?
It is foreseeable that the consequences on the liberal chain that monopolizes the powers established in Europe will be devastating. The President of the European Parliament, Schulz, in the first statement following the election of Trump, has already warned about the next frost that will fall between Europe and the USA. Probably it is precisely Europe that Schulz represents to receive the greatest damage ...
Whether Trump's election will have a domino effect on many Western governments, it's too early to tell. With all certainty, it will force you to scratch part of that patina of universal thought that has fallen by default on the intellects of many, thanks to a unique, constant, sometimes revolting cultural formatting.
It is not excluded that Trump will be a mediocre president, this must be said immediately. Certainly, however, his election will involve jolts and rebalancing. Regardless of everyone's orientations, in a world where many things must change, this can only be good. Especially in international relations and in the role played by the US on a global scale, we expect an earthquake. Brexit, courageously incensed by the new president, was a first step. Anything can happen: the real big lesson today is this and the rest of the world awaits.
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