text: Donald Trump's election shows the dramatic deterioration of civil society in the U.S. Gerrymandering has created racially motivated distortions in the electoral map. Politicians and judges are bought and paid for by the rich. Voter turnout is at record lows and yet, the Trump got elected with almost three million fewer votes than Clinton. Police practice brutal systemic discrimination. Governments run unsustainable deficits and yet public infrastructure is woefully inadequate. Trumps behavior is disgraceful. But, American civil society is in such a state of degradation that one in three Americans think Donald Trump is a good President. That is the real story. It too hard to imagine the U.S. ever coming back from this sorry state. The election of Donald Trump means the end of the United States, perhaps not as a country, not yet anyway, but certainly as a world power. Nature abhors a vacuum. The demise of the U.S. creates and global power vacuum and substantial instability for everyone.