Just finished listening to the FiveThirtyEight day-after podcast with Nate and the team. As usual, and despite their obvious exhaustion, there was a balanced and erudite discussion of what just happened. Its seems that Trump tapped into a discontent, comprised of fear or anger, that many blue collar Americans felt about their plight in a global economy. Conversely, Clinton could not completely put together the same coalition of groups that propelled Obama to victory twice, though she came very close. There was only a one point difference in three critical states which, had the reverse been true, would have made her President and changed today's narrative.

Of course, it's much more complex than that. So now, the Republican Party controls the whole game in Washington. The party that spent years obstructing the governance of the country must now govern. Democracy is a strange thing, and a messy thing but in spite of results that we may or may not like, it's still the best thing going.