The results won't be actually official until, as I mentioned, the USA Electoral College votes on December 19th and the new, incoming Congress in joint session certifies their vote on January 6th. However, at this point various organs of the press such as the _New York Times_ are declaring that the Trump/Pence ticket has essentially won. The next four years are going to be a pretty horrific one for my country, even if the short-fingered vulgarian crashes and burns as President, being absolutely, utterly unqualified for the office, and gets replaced by the differently-horrific Vice-President Pence. Serious damage will be committed by one or both of those persons to the US Supreme Court, whose near-term fate was probably the most-vital issue in this election cycle. The Republican Party (no party of mine) gets further confirmed by this election outcome into a path of long-term self-destruction that its now-neutered party leadership have long warned against and tried to avert. (See the 2013 so-called Autopsy Report for details (http://goproject.gop.com/). The election of this emotionally volatile, short-attention-span buffoon and Dunning-Krueger poster child is best seen as a spasm of pique by a large segment of the electorate against 'the establishment' -- putting in power someone with no experience and absolutely no plan, just a bad attitude, a bunch of empty slogans, and no credibility whatsoever except with his pal Putin and the other dictators he admires. He pretty much stands for everything I oppose: provincialism, misogyny, xenophobia, religious bigotry, economic protectionism, and identity politics. And, just as in the George W. Bush years, once again I stand to need to keep apologising for my country every time I go abroad. I think I need a really tall drink.