If the US media has been shown up as being out of touch with the American voter, some elements of it are not mincing words about the election outcome either. From a New Yorker comment titled 'An American Tragedy': "The election of Donald Trump to the Presidency is nothing less than a tragedy for the American republic, a tragedy for the Constitution, and a triumph for the forces, at home and abroad, of nativism, authoritarianism, misogyny, and racism. Trump’s shocking victory, his ascension to the Presidency, is a sickening event in the history of the United States and liberal democracy." Well, well, well.