Weltschmerz After Trump's Triumph

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : The fact that Trump has Elon Musk, the most successful entrepreneur and innovator of our times, at his side also stands for a visionary departure: America literally wants to reach for the stars again.
58% : Under Trump, we'll stand alone in the rain.
40% : Trump will once again present us with the bill that Germany's governments, from Schröder to Merkel (and to Scholz, Merkel's onetime Finance Minister), believed they could evade.
36% : Actually, this has always been the case -- but Trump now gives an even starker reminder of this truth.
33% : Trump will force us at last to invest much more in our own armed forces.
31% : "I don't understand it," one prominent columnist of Der Spiegel magazine wrote about the decision of educated, well-informed Americans to vote for Trump.
28% : For years, his magazine loved to print bizarre caricatures of Trump on its cover, as a mad gorilla destroying the Statue of Liberty or an orange meteorite racing toward earth and threatening total destruction.
20% : In spite of many fears in Europe, it is not clear that the U.S. under Trump will throw Ukraine down Putin's throat.
13% : One prominent climate activist, Germany's Greta Thunberg, posted just one word, "Weltschmerz," meaning melancholy or despair, on X. The editor-in-chief of Die Zeit, the largest weekly in Germany, called Trump's election "a nightmare".Most German journalists loathe Trump no less than, and perhaps even more than, their mainstream colleagues in America's progressive media.
11% : Why did Trump prevail over Harris?

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