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To be honest, I think Russell Brand in his "trews" on it actually sums it up in a very balanced way, and the only really reasonable way to look at any of it without pretending that Donald Trump, "that guy off the American Apprentice", being the president of the United States isn't just ****ing barmy.

Anyway, for those who haven't seen it, he basically talks about how something like this happening was inevitable. That Trump now BEING president isn't surprising, shocking, or the start of some massive pile of problems... it is the inevitable outcome of the last few decades of politics. It's not a "new" problem, it's simply the same problem that has been festering away for years, suddenly being shoved into the light of day for all to see.

Clinton would have been a disaster. Trump will probably be a disaster. Pretend otherwise all you want - the simple truth is, that the real absolute ****ing disaster is that we've reached the point where these two were ever candidates at all. The result of a completely broken system that doesn't really work for anyone any more. The Clintons have been a large part of that system. Pretending that DONALD TRUMP is the man up to the task of fixing that system is utterly insane... he isn't and he won't, he may well break it further in trying. The only real positive here is that (again, as Brand says) it is surely no longer possible to ignore or deny the fact that politics, across the entire world really, has become an absolute shambles... and THAT might finally set us on the path to doing something about it, within the NEXT few decades. With new, hopeful faces at the front.