This was the defining moment when 'politics as usual' in America was over for good.
Who could have foreseen in 44 BC when the first triumvirate came to a violent end with the assassination of Julius Caesar that the governing system of the Roman Empire would never be the same?
Yet a massive change had taken place that decided the ultimate destiny of Pax Romana, whether it was recognized or not. I believe that such an event took place last night in New Hampshire.
The old way of doing things in the arena of American Politics is over.
The moderate establishment candidates of Clinton on the one side and Bush, Christie and Kasich on the other were overpowered by the voices of Trump and Sanders who were articulating the pent up anger and frustration of an electorate fed up with political correctness, Washington cronyism and years of "business-as-usual."
Sanders, who is little more than a pale-pink communist, loudly called for the rich to be taxed to the limit, for Wall Street to pay for the entitlements of the poor, for free tuition for all students in public colleges and for extended health care benefits to every American.
Trump, with the very opposite message, called for restrictions to be lifted on business enterprise, for a wall to be built to keep out the unwanted from Mexico, for a halt to Muslim immigration to the United States, and for the scrapping of Obama Care.
Both men won by unprecedented double-digit margins.
It was a shot that was heard around the world. It was not the death of a candidate but a shot to the heart of the OLD ORDER and in that regard we have seen the beginning of a revolution, whether we recognize it or not.
Jubilate.
Ian
