The civilization we knew is gone

This is an earth changing event. The country which for over a century played a decisive role in how the world developed elected Donald Trump president for the second time, a presidency that will not be subject to the checks that existed when Trump was president from 2016-2020 and which applied to all his predecessors since the founding of the United States. And this has happened even though voters know full well who Trump is and what he represents.

Whatever the political issues of these elections may have been - the economy, immigration, the excesses of the woke guardians of political correctness, abortions, democracy, the alienation of young white men - Trump's easy win constitutes something much more important. It is the collapse of basic, founding principles of the United States. It is the vanquishing of a civilization that we know as the natural development of the...