"A nightmare began with Donald Trump's victory in November 2016. It has just been extended indefinitely with his narrow loss and wild allegations of electoral fraud," wrote Pankaj Mishra. Probably no president of the US has faced as much abuse as President Trump because liberal fanatics never accepted Hillary Clinton's loss in 2016. "Russian interference, including the WikiLeaks email hack and news dump; James Comey's decision to reopen the FBI's investigation of Clinton's email server practices just eleven days out from Election Day; the obsessive, unrelenting focus of the mainstream media on the email scandal; ambient racism and sexism that gave Trump an unexpected edge; and Cambridge Analytica's data gleaned from Facebook to try and manipulate voters. And on and on," wrote Damon Linker. "American liberalism was possible only because America wasn't fully liberal," wrote Patrick J Deneen. "The tools of the liberal order that were intended to free us from interpersonal obligations -- the state and market -- seem no longer under our control; in poll after poll, and expressed in film and song, Americans express the anxiety and fear they no longer feel free." "Unfortunately, this election hasn't resulted in the demise of the Trump platform. It attracted upwards of 70 million votes which is 7 million more than he garnered in 2016, when he was a relatively unknown entity," wrote Swagato Ganguly. "On the bright side, a Trump victory has been averted." Though Trump received a record number of votes, breaking Barack Obama's record, Biden achieved a double record break by getting 4 million votes more than Trump, thanks to mail-in, or postal, votes where the intention of the voter cannot be ascertained, even if the signature matches. The liberal world order has created a succession of financial crises, including the savings and loans crisis of the 1980s, the Asia crisis of 1987-1988, the Dotcom bubble of 1999-2000 and the global financial crisis of 2007-2008, which have predominantly hit the working class and the poor. Globalization, a holy project for liberals, resulted in loss of 3.7 million US jobs to China. While large numbers of people have been lifted out of abject poverty in emerging nations, thus reducing inequality slightly, inequality has increased in wealthy countries as the middle class has shrunk, wrote Zia Qureshi. Even during the coronavirus induced lockdown, "Billionaires have seen their fortunes hit record highs during the pandemic". Trump has wrought far-reaching changes to the US, most of which will be permanent, even if liberals disagree. He has managed to persuade three Arab nations to cease hostilities against Israel which no previous president has achieved. Biden may have been mailed into the White House but he may find old policies do not work any more. Trump may yet return.
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