Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally. Flickr/Gage Skidmore. Some rights reserved.The deplorable carnival of bigotry, racism, xenophobia, falsehoods, hypocrisy and character assassination, orchestrated by Donald Trump, which befouled the US electoral process and made a travesty of the US democracy before the world — is finally over.
And the unthinkable happened: Trump, while losing the popular vote (by 1-2 % as of now) won the Electoral College (279-228), which is what matters. He is now the president-elect of the world's remaining super power. The dark question looms: can a candidate who helped create the worst campaign in US history avoid becoming its worst president? As crushing as his victory is for half the country, will the real disappointment come with his presidency?
Clinton bears some responsibility for how she conducted her campaign. She spent too much time defending herself against Trump’s vicious attacks and in counterattacking by questioning his fitness to serve. She spent too little time speaking of her policies and when she did, they often sounded too bureaucratic and less inspirational; she thus failed to articulate a coherent, integrated and lofty vision and hammer it home with conviction. In the end she was viewed as a status quo candidate in a change-oriented election environment.
