Early on the morning of Nov. 9, Republican President-elect Donald Trump addressed supporters in New York, declaring victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton. (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post)Eight years ago, unprecedented throngs of Americans rushed into the streets in the middle of the night. Trump addresses supporters after winning the presidency early Wednesday. “America never was America to me,” Langston Hughes wrote in “Let America Be America,” his 1935 poem. Many Trump supporters, drawn by their candidate’s dark vision of a lost and failing country that “I alone can fix,” thought of themselves as a movement to restore greatness.

Source: Washington Post November 09, 2016 09:03 UTC