Apocalypse now. “Dear God. What have you done? After Brexit and this election … a world is collapsing before our eyes. Dizziness,” was the cri de coeur of Gerard Araud, France’s ambassador to the U.S., apparently unaware that anything that discomfits the French pleases a vast number of Americans. “I am homeless in America,” writes Tom Friedman, a leading New York Times columnist and paid-up member of the media-Washington-establishment complex that could not imagine the decline in its relevance or the demise of the Clinton dynasty. Unaware that shouts of bon voyage would be ringing in their ears, 27 percent of U.S. federal government bureaucrats say they will emigrate, perhaps contributing to Wednesday’s crash of Canada’s immigration department website. “The horror, the horror,” cries a leading venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, home of the industries Barack Obama admired and cossetted. All because the worst possible candidate the Democrats could have put in the field was bested by the worst possible candidate the Republicans could find to oppose her, both getting fewer votes than their counterparts did four years earlier, both regarded by about two-out-of-three voters as dishonest and untrustworthy.

In our American way, this most heated of recent campaigns ended with all players—Obama, Clinton, Republicans who opposed Trump—wishing the president-elect success, or saying they do. And turning to the job of reshaping their parties to the new realities revealed by the election results. The most important chore will be to figure out how to respond to the uprising of “The Forgotten Man,” a phrase made famous by Franklin Roosevelt to describe those hardest hit by the Great Depression, and used by Trump supporters to describe those hardest hit by globalization. The Democratic party’s left is set to rally ’round socialist Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren, and take the party back to its roots: support of trade unions, protectionism, Keynesian spending programs, an expanded welfare state. The pro-business, welfare -reform, centrist politics of Bill Clinton are to be consigned to the dustbin of history, along with the corruption of every institution with which the Clintons have come into contact, from state troopers in Arkansas, to “Travelgate” and more at the White House, to the Department of Justice on the tarmac in Phoenix, and on to the merger of the Department of State with the Clinton Foundation to form a new pay-for-play game with a surer payoff for the Clintons than Trump’s casinos proved to have for him.