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I just don't know how to process this. I feel like the world has ended, but nothing has changed. Oh, except the stock market has probably crashed, right? I just got up and haven't actually seen the front page.But the stock market will recover. And honestly, I think the US will limp along domestically. Hell, it's possible that the Republican Congress will finally realize they have nowhere else to hide and will start actually doing their job. It will be interesting, probably verging on Game-of-Thronesian, watching the Republican Establishment try to work with their new president. Assuming that my favorite journalists can stay out of internment camps and keep reporting, anyway.

It's foreign policy I am seriously seriously worried about.  Putin and his Russia were unabashadly rooting for Trump, and now they have won. This would not be a good time to live in Eastern Europe.

I think our time as Top Nation is over. Trump has no interest in foreign policy beyond "build a Yuuuuge wall" and insult everybody on the other side of it. He has been repudiated by pretty much every Republican foreign policy expert, so he can't even really delegate it. I can't even imagine who he would nominate as Secretary of State.

Being Top Nation is no picnic, and in many ways it has not been good for us. But now some other country will have to step up, and I don't know how that will play out. I'm pretty sure Russia is eager to volunteer. But then, so is China, following a completely different path.

At least Minnesota finally pulled it together to go for Hillary, but it took an embarrassingly long time (too close to call? Seriously?) And Wisconsin? Oh, God, Wisconsin. After all the terrible things Trump said about your native son, Paul Ryan? Iowa wasn't really a surprise, but with Wisconsin's final collapse into the Republican abyss my state is completely surrounded by red. Except Canada, of course. Hey, maybe it's time for Canada to step into the breach and become the next super-power. Good luck with that, guys.

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