Glib statement maybe, but the portents are not good.
Never mind the soothing platitudes from Trump in his acceptance speech, this is the beginning of the big reverse.
What began here with the Brexit vote, and the return to a more divided and divisive Europe, so with the US election result, and a return to a more fragmented, isolationist world.
There is nothing in this latest result that is positive. And those that will be running the most powerful country in the world from behind the cardboard cut-out that is Trump are the ones to really worry about.
This will be the most anti-progressive administration within a supposedly developed country. There are no brakes. There is nothing to stop the divisions that were slowly healing becoming ever wider.
And once again, the outcome is based on lies. More blatant and more oft-repeated than in our referendum, but visible – and totally irrelevant.
The post-truth world has surely arrived. Those disillusioned in this country preferred to blame Europe for their ills, rather than austerity-happy Tories. The disillusioned in the US rightly blame the political establishment, but the wrong ones.
The Republicans have blocked every attempt to improve the lot of the Trump supporter, and yet they have handed their persecutors the reins, across the board.
The ripples from this have yet to really get going, but it echoes across the globe, all those who feel abandoned or ignored will look to pile blame on the innocent – because they are different – and the world reverts to all the intolerance and separateness that blighted so many lives for too long.
I wish I had a religion to which I could pray. I wish I had enough faith in enough people to see this as a temporary blip that will speedily be washed away.
But the power has shifted, and not to the people who felt disenfranchised, but to a more despotic new élite, less controllable, less compromising, less humanitarian.
This is a dark road. I wonder where the light is.
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