With Donald Trump’s shock victory in the US election dominating headlines this week, the Spectator podcast takes an opportunity to reflect on what the New York real estate magnate’s victory means for America, Britain and the rest of the world.
Fraser Nelson is joined from Washington DC by the Spectator’s Deputy Editor Freddy Gray, and Christopher Caldwell, senior editor at The Weekly Standard. This week’s magazine draws a line in the sand between Trump’s victory and the Leave campaign’s triumph, saying that, unlike with Mr Trump, Vote Leave ‘was led by people who were liberal, globally minded and optimistic.’
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But Freddy Gray tells the podcast that:
“I think we all like to think that Trump isn’t Brexit, and that Brexit was a more politically correct and socially acceptable thing than Trump, but I think what you’re seeing after Trump’s win is that Trumpism might become more acceptable because people have to just accept that it’s happened and that’s how democracy works.
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