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It’s done now. Trump – an unsuccessful business tycoon and caricature reality TV star – has been democratically elected as president of the United States of America. You might have divined the news with your eyes somewhat blurred and upward, caught in a narcotic haze of disbelief as buckets of black crashed earthward. Did not the sky tear and unleash forth its hidden malady? Could the deafening screeches of anguish not be heard for miles around as the road erupted into flames consuming innocent children, and spitting out Hades’ little winged accomplices to feast on us all? Did the world not descend into some such crescendo of apocalypse? No…? Oh.

Well this is what you’d be forgiven for believing when you merely tapped on your Twitter icon to find yourself inundated with the most inane, myopic and hyperbolic drivel. The extent to which was so overly dramatic, so beyond satire and comedy, so common that it began to be become dissolved in its own banality. Trump has won, and this visceral reaction to brand America as a deluded country, intoxicated with the idea that Muslims are a plague to the human race, that the LGBTQ community is worthless, that black people do not deserve the right to justice, that everyone has suddenly donned a long white hooded cloak and begun to ritually dance around an enflamed cross is, of course, stupid. We must remember that it is the exact America that we are so quick to name and shame as filled with bigoted racists (a term now so overly used that it has lost all meaning, like a vial of brilliant pink transmogrifying into a limp off-white translucency) that only four years before re-elected a black man over an affluent white man. It is incomprehensible – and therefore, I believe, completely implausible – that the success of Donald Trump stems from the dangerously simplistic view that he was able to tap into latent racism of the whites across America. What we must do in response and analysis of such a situation is not, like some airheaded imbecile, jump to immediate and banal conclusions on the presumption of delusion. We can’t just spasmodically shout ‘bigot!’, ‘racist!’, ‘sexist!’, ‘misogynist!’, ‘white man!’ at anyone who chose to vote for the candidate that we (and indeed, many Trump voters) didn’t agree with. Make no mistake, I don’t intend to normalise the outcome of this election as something easily predictable. What has happened is ridiculous. But, if we try and analyse the situation properly, we can at least try and make sense as to why swaths of people went out on November 8th to vote for a complete political outsider.

Firstly, we must look at what the voters didn’t vote for. In America, there exists a two-party system, which means that there are only two viable candidates for president – Republican or Democrat. So, to the mind of a majority of Americans, the only options that they were given were Donald Trump for the Republican Party and Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party.

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