How Hillary Clinton
managed to lose an election to a candidate as divisive and unpopular as Donald
Trump will baffle observers and agonise Democrats for years to come. Once the
shockwave passes, some glimpses of rational explanation may become visible.
Incumbent parties rarely hold on to power after
eight years in office. George HW Bush, following Reagan, was an exception, but
politics has become steadily more polarised since and pendulums have a habit of
swinging.
according to the Guardian Trump’s defiance of expectations has itself also
become somewhat of a golden rule in American politics in 2016. Written off
repeatedly during the Republican primary, and only rarely taken seriously
during the general election, he nonetheless epitomises the same
anti-establishment mood that led Britain to vote to leave the European Union
and Democrats in 22 US states to nominate Bernie Sanders. Fairly or not, it is
an establishment with which Clinton could not have been more closely aligned in
the minds of many voters if she tried.
i still congratulate her for her efforts.
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