The Day After

I figure there are two things that Trumps presidency will mark. Long term, it's the death of democracy, but he doesn't see it that way, he sees it as rather the opposite.
Short term, it marks the moment when neoliberalism has taken the gloves off. Trump's agenda, to make America great again, will not happen, at least it can't happen without unbridled suffering across the globe. Trump is a consequence of the ongoing  failure of the capitalist model, where alternatives to that model, whilst clearly imperative, are impossible for the majority of 'working people' (read 'salt of the earth') to imagine. Maybe it is 'experts', or 'elites' who represent challenges or ways out, but they have become both corrupt and oblivious to the consequences of their own policies- they are precisely ridiculed because their fiddling about doesn't work (see Obama). These figures are hence seen as mirrors of the 1%, and sometimes represent precisely that (see Cameron's ex-cabinet).
It is the middle class, the bourgeois, those who work and hope within the superstructure of late capitalism- the believers and investors in the whole idea - who will feel this disruption most of all. In the pubs and bars, I've seen it straight away. As far as The Old George in Bethnal Green is concerned; 'The End is Nigh - get Trump'd!' is today's message on the chalk board, and it's not that they don't mean it. That's why the media got it so wrong, it was so much against their interests to predict it!
The WORST thing, is that this new proletariat; Brexiteers, Trumpers, whatever, are not guided by virtuous ideas, but by bigotry and a LACK of ideas.
It means all of us in education really have a job on our hands, for this kind of ignorance is not going to succeed on my watch.
Above, a Jasper Johns drawing, one of many he made of the American flag, somewhat disturbed.