2024-11-11
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A stunning victory has crowned Donald Trump the most consequential American president
since Franklin D. Roosevelt After defeating Kamala Harris,
and not just narrowly but by a wide margin, America's 45th president will become its 47th.
The fact that Mr Trump will be the first to win non-consecutive terms
since Grover Cleveland in 1892 does not start to do justice to his achievement.
He has defined a new political era for America and the world.
In some ways the Trump era is very modern.
It was made possible by technological changes and media fragmentation at a time when distinguishing law from politics and politics from showbiz is hard.
But it is also a return to an old idea of America.
Before the fight against fascism convinced FDR that it was in his country's interest to help bring order and prosperity to the world,
the country was hostile towards immigration,
scornful of trade and skeptical of foreign entanglements.
In the 1920s and 1930s, that led to dark times.
It could do so again.
After Tuesday's victory, the world lies at Mr Trump's feet.