A martyoshka doll showing Donald Trump, U.S. President-elect, right, sits beside dolls representing former U.S. presidents, including Barack Obama, second right, William "Bill" Clinton, and George W. Bush, third right. Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg
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Making sense of shock Trump victory – “voting cattle” era over
Donald Trump's victory shows that voters have finally tired of a political establishment which has failed to understand information is now democratized.
LONDON – It's always easy after the event, but there were many signals telling us that pundits (and the polls) had been calling the US Presidential Election wrong.
As it turns out, the extent of Trump's emphatic victory confirms it to have been a re-run of Brexit where commentators were also deaf to messages from the silent majority.
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