So Donald Trump wins the U.S.presidential election. The last thing liberals across the world, why, perhaps even many in the anti-Hillary Clinton camp wanted. But then the trajectory taken by democracies in the last few years has been alarming. Narendra Modi, Rodrigo Duterte...

Having said that the headline of Sean O' Grady's column in The Independent is dead on in reminding us that  "Donald Trump's victory is democracy at work -whether we like it or not." 

Whether we like it or not we have to live with Donald Trumps and Narendra Modis. There is no point in blaming the people for the failings of political parties--the congress party in India and the democratic party in the U.S- that have denied the voters a credible choice...

In the meantime, while the supporters of Trump celebrate his victory in the U.S and elsewhere, another farce, demonetization is played out in India, in a bid, as the BJP government claims, to get rid of black money. 

In fact, corruption happens to be the trump card for both the leaders.

Thomas Frank in his column in The Guardian points out that after all, there was a reason that tens of millions of good people voted for him (Trump) yesterday. He has pledged to "drain the swamp" of DC corruption.

"But let's not deceive ourselves. We aren't going to win anything. What happened 

on Tuesday is a disaster, both for liberalism and for the world," he goes on without sparing Hillary Clinton either.

Not only that we aren't going to win anything it looks like more troubles lie ahead.

Unfortunately, I don't share the unusual optimism of Slavoj Zizek (Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst)  who foresees in a Trump victory emergence of a "totally new political situation with chances for a more radical left -or, to quote Mao: 'Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.' " 

Mao? Again frightening!