Following the initial shock of Donald J. Trump’s victory, both friends and foes will downgrade the significance of what has transpired. The same people who portrayed a Trump victory as apocalyptic will come to see it as business as usual. Irrespective of the policies that the president-elect will adopt, Mr. Trump’s victory will have profound political repercussions in the United States and abroad. Mr. Trump has buried the liberal narrative of what happened after the Cold War. Mr. Trump’s victory not only emboldens populist leaders and parties in Europe; it puts the future of the European Union in question.

Source: New York Times November 20, 2016 21:47 UTC