Thread by @andrewmichta

🧵This is a post mainly for my followers from Europe, but it also applies to others outside the United States: Please understand how potentially transformative Donald Trump's landslide victory is. Set your biases aside--whether from the left or the right--and consider this.1/9

Analysts often engage in hyperbole about inflection points in history. But the election of Donald J. Trump as 47th President is really a moment when the trajectory America and the world have travelled for close to a quarter of a millennium has been fundamentally altered. 2/9

First, DT is only the 2nd US president after Grover Cleveland to be elected to two non-consecutive presidential terms. He was elected by the cross-section of American society: carried 47% of the Latino vote, doubled his support among black men, was supported by women & Gen Z.3/9

This election marks the end of the neo-liberal economic paradigm and globalization, for while offshoring expanded global wealth and made China a manufacturing powerhouse, it also gutted the industrial base in the US and undercut the once independent American middle class. 4/9

Noone can predict what the new economic landscape will look, but one thing is clear: The landslide election of Donald Trump means that globalization is over, and though it will be quite painful to pull out stakes and reshore/friend-shore our supply chains, it will happen. 5/9

The reelection of Donald Trump, who in 2016 was dismissed by the establishment as a one-off aberration, is a resounding affirmation that a profound shift among the electorate is underway. It's a repudiation of group identity politics and a return to individual citizenship. 6/9

The American nation has signaled once again that it prizes what unites us as a people over what divides us--reaffirming the irreducible function of the state to safeguard the security and prosperity for the people--the two core principles our elites seemed to have forgotten. 7/9

The second Trump administration has a historic opportunity to restore America’s national fabric by rebuilding our industry, our competitiveness and the traditional commitment to hard work and merit as the foundation of the American dream. And most of all our mutual trust. 8/9

We should once again focus on what unites us as a people, not what divides us. We should remember that we will prosper only if we return to the foundational "E pluribus unum." And remember that while our democracy is not perfect, we are far better than any alternatives. 9/End