What America can expect after Donald Trump’s election

By Idrees Kahloon, Washington bureau chief, The Economist

THE FIRST time Donald Trump won the presidency, in 2016, by beating back both the Republican and Democratic establishments, was shocking. That he won it again in 2024—after losing in 2020, inciting his supporters to try to violently overturn his loss, then keeping control of his party while weathering 90 or so felony indictments (with convictions on 34 of those counts), two assassination attempts and one switch-up at the top of the Democratic ticket—is utterly surreal. Only one previous president, Grover Cleveland, managed to return to the White House after being booted out once. That was more than a century ago.