To some degree, we all saw this comingYesterday, citizens of the United States of America exercised their democratic right and elected Donald J. Trump as their next president. The real estate mogul-cum-reality TV star-cum-populist demagogue is set to become the most powerful man of the world. The result has shocked the establishment, including the mainstream media pundits and seasoned political analysts who projected an easy victory for Hillary Clinton. But deep down, many of us are slowly coming to the realization that this reckoning was long in the making. He called for deportations, an unfeasible border wall to be built between the United States and Mexico, and attacked everyone from Muslims to people with physical disabilities.

Source: The China Post November 09, 2016 16:14 UTC