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Financial Times: “Donald Trump’s victory is no ordinary shock. For once the word seismic is merited. On the domestic front, it was a rejection of the US establishment personified by Hillary Clinton — in much the same way Mr Trump’s capture of the Republican nomination closed the book on the Bush era.”

“For a country seething with resentment at Washington’s oligarchic ways, there could be no more tempting piñatas than America’s leading dynasties. The Clintons and the Bushes are now over. Mr Trump’s victory also marks a sharp break from more than 70 years of American global leadership, a role he has railed against for decades. Having launched a hostile takeover of the Republican party, Mr Trump has now pulled off the same with the US federal government. Democracy’s capacity to surprise apart, Mr Trump’s win signals a disruption of almost everything the world has taken for granted about America.”