I totally disagree with Chaiy Donati’s article ‘The Ghosts of 2016: How the Democrats’ betrayal of Bernie Sanders and the embrace of neoliberalism paved the way for Trump’ about the reason Trump won the US election so convincingly. This election had very little, if anything, to do with policy.

With Trump’s historic victory on November 5, the neoliberal era – the era that promised a marketplace for everything and a solution for nothing – seems to be witnessing its slow, painful death.

A few minutes after Donald Trump’s ‘Wow look what just happened!’ speech, claiming the win on election night, I was messaged by an 18-year-old American-born student. We have been connected for some time on social media.

The best case scenario for the next Donald Trump administration is that he will treat the presidency as a get out of jail free card, and spend the next four years playing golf and firing people, in between dispensing tax cuts to the ultra-rich. The worst case scenario is that he will turn the world's biggest economy into the newest and best-armed autocracy.