The good news is that we dodged a bullet in this election. The bad news is that we don't know how many other bullets are coming, or from what direction.
A Hillary Clinton victory would have meant a third consecutive administration dedicated to dismantling the institutions that have kept America free, and imposing instead the social vision of the smug elites. That could have been the ultimate catastrophe -- not just for our time, but for generations yet unborn.
In one sense, Donald Trump's victory was a unique American event. But, in a larger sense, it represents the biggest backlash among many elsewhere, against smug elites in Western nations, where increasing numbers of ordinary people are showing their anger at where those elites are leading their countries.
There, as here, mindlessly flinging the doors open to peoples from societies whose fundamental values clash with those of the countries they enter, has been a hallmark of arrogant blindness and disregard of negative consequences suffered by ordinary people -- consequences from which the elites themselves are insulated.http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/political_commentary/commentary_by_thomas_sowell/what_nowFirst the financial problem with the P.I.I.G.S. amplified by the "G" (Greece) resisting austerity and demanding ever more "loans" and "better terms" from the strained EU, then the BREXIT with a majority of British voters telling Brussels to chuck it, and now Trump and America's victory. It's going to be an interesting time...
