Lights Out for the Old Order: Trump has wrought a revolution, by Conrad Black.

This is the ninth time I have witnessed, usually from afar but not this time, a party transition in the administration of the United States government. …

Yet this election in 2016 is producing a much more profound transition than any of those three did. Though the losing candidate won the popular vote by over a million votes, it was, as the president-elect has called it, a landslide.

Donald Trump is the only person in history to be elected president of the United States without having held a prominent public office or military command, the only one to have paid for his own campaign for the nomination, the only one to have run successfully against the leadership and all the principal factions of both parties, the oldest and wealthiest person to be elected, and the first of a business background.

He ran against the system, both parties, and almost all the media and the polls, to “drain the swamp,” against the OBushtons: all the Clintons and Obamas and Bushes and the Republican and Democratic lookalike also-rans (Carter, Dukakis, Quayle, Gore, Kerry, McCain, Romney). … Trump is not a new broom sweeping clean; this was the big wolf blowing the house down into rubble and splinters and shards. …

Each major domestic-policy department of government is being entrusted to people dedicated to radical change, to the uprooting of a whole generation of error. …

Donald Trump’s landslide is in the profundity of his mandate to institute massive changes, not the margin of his victory over a terrified coalition of lookalike candidates. …

Trump’s popularity is rising steadily and most Americans think Obama has already gone as president. The president-elect is driving a bulldozer at 60 miles per hour toward the wreckage of decades of misgovernment and misinformation, while the departing incumbents crawl around on their hands and knees complaining that the lights have gone out. For them, they have.