James, your opinion of both parties in trouble parallels my own, although I was wildly wrong in my election prediction. Writing to Canadian and American friends this is my take on it, responding to an email today from a Newfoundlander asking why we vote as we do:

"Why do we do it? Money and fear of losing our place. Newfoundland character evolved from community, multi-faceted as any other recognizing survival depended on looking after each other. Canada's multicultural experiment is a national effort, assisted by a legacy and heritage of development without slavery, wild west, civil war, racism as US. We are different from our American cousins.

"I think of Americans and Canadians as family. Im heart-broken. Yesterday I felt physically a heaviness, foreboding and despair as if a I had been told a friend had become a heroin addict. Theres nothing I can do. Except to be more grateful for being born in a great country of parents adhering to its great values, and working for it so it doesnt fly off into a lonely orbit like the US.

"Trumpism is regression, a consequence of a long overdue reckoning of playing the punks game: manipulation by the powerful and influential of lower classes to vote against their best interests. Americans believed electing a bigot-misogynist-racist in a constitutionally multicultural society would be an improvement, again voting against their best interests, making their lives worse."

Trump will have to listen carefully or suffer the same repudiation and humiliation of the current Establishment.