This MAGA party will be short lived.

Just my opinion, but I'm surprised at the celebration, as if something has been fixed or is about to be. Also surprised at the sudden despair of Clinton fans, as if she was the one with a viable plan to make America great. Elections do have consequences, but they don't override decades of bad management. It's disappointing how few people understand that because it means we go into this completely unprepared for hardship.

Trump won't MAGA, nor would Hillary Clinton. America is bankrupt and countries don't go from bankrupt to great without an intervening prolonged crisis. 2008 (or 2001, or 1990, etc.) could've been the crisis that clears the decks and allows a fresh start. It could've been, but the federal reserve crossed the Rubicon and started printing money to prop up the house of cards. Because of that, the US was able to add another $10 trillion in federal debt (plus trillions more in other debt and obligations). We're more bankrupt now than ever, and now our future includes a currency crisis on top of a depression. No president has a plan to avoid that pain.

Even worse, multiple large global economies are bankrupt at the same time, as evidenced by (among other things) outright debt monetization by the central banks of the US, Europe, Japan, Britain, Switzerland, probably China. You don't have to accept this as a fact, but if you've spent any time studying the history of finance and economics, it should at least be of concern. When this will start to snowball is hard to predict, but hundreds of trillions ($ equivalent) of un-payable global debt and unfunded social program obligations make a bad outcome very likely, IMO.

For a while longer, I guess, half our population will celebrate and the other half will plot their return to power. Both groups never seem to realize that their preferred politicians long ago sold out to the real power brokers, whose interests historically don't coincide with any particular political ideology or set of freedoms. Even if Trump truly is working outside of that system (and I'm not convinced), he's too late and too weak to stop the consequences of bad economic choices.