This has been a revenge of the underclass.  This angry group of disaffected and many would argue, also disenfranchised working class predominantly WASP voter has come out in numbers and voted with its feet.  It was more of a Hillary Clinton’s election to lose and she hasn’t disappointed on this one.  This election will be dissected and analyzed by the social scientists and political pundits for years to come.  Make no mistake; Donald Trump has been a rank outsider if ever there was one.  He has never held any public office at any level in his life, but was able to cynically harness the collective rage and dissatisfaction of a large chunk of electorate and propelled himself to the highest office of the land.  Sitting oceans away, it is difficult to make an accurate assessment, but just a couple of points. 

   Never mind all that pre-election talk as to how someone like Trump could never hope to win in a changing demographic profile of the American population.  The fact of the matter remains that the United States is still very much a conservative, white Anglo-Saxon protestant country and it’s going to be that way for some time.  A majority of people want to live in here and now, like what’s in it for me and who can I blame for all my troubles.  I think Trump has offered simplistic and disingenuous solutions to the complex economic problems that every industrialized country has to deal with.  He has led so many people up the garden path and they have finally bought into his eminently outlandish ideas.  All through the campaign he has taunted the Clintons and the Obamas of Ivory tower elite having little idea how tough it has been for common folks on the ground in all these years.  One should not forget that he’s very much part of that same elite that he keeps deriding; the only difference I can see is that where their elitism is compassionate in nature, his is the ruthless one. 

   As far as his downright obnoxious and misogynistic views go, who knows, subliminally a core of Trump’s support base might be in tacit agreement with all that shit.  Now that he has been able to pull off one of the biggest political heists of all time, he should be given the chance to succeed.  Trump has promised so much and has projected the image of someone who has got all the answers to every question that you can’t help thinking that he’s setting everyone up for a severe disappointment.  The proof of the pudding would be in the eating.

    Personally, I don’t like Donald Trump for a somewhat different reason.  I don’t think he has got any time for people who are on the margins of society.  Being a person with physical disabilities, I consider myself very much on the margins of society.  He has an undisguised contempt for anyone who does not share  his worldview.  His whole life so far has been a result oriented industry and success is the only currency that counts no matter how unaffordable the cost.  We shall see.