Lessons from Trump’s triumph


Democratic power: Trump delivered a resounding victory against the ultimate establishment candidate. The results exposed the profound fault lines in American society. – AFP

The morning after: New US president challenges the globalised liberal order

BELIEVE it. Donald Trump will be the 45th president of the United States. That’s reality. Whatever your views, it marks a sharp repudiation of the status quo. I was there when this happened on Nov 8, 2016 – to be exact, at Harvard winding up a two-week stay, calling on old friends; making new ones and of course, attending the fall meeting of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (GSAS) Alumni Association Council, on which I have been a member since 1993 (and its chairman, 2002-2005).

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