Malta wakes up to news that Trump is America’s Joffrey Baratheon. The soul-searching begins on Facebook

The unthinkable has happened. America has rejected the Wall Street establishment candidate, so it’s time to treat the rest of the Donald Trump demographic as part of some extended cast straight out of 1972’s thriller Deliverance.

Because across the Atlantic, the fear is real: environmentalists fear the Donald’s climate change non-policy will push us further towards the point of no-return; the EU’s elite fear a bonfire of their treasured TTIP; and guess who the first people congratulating Trump are?

That’s France’s Front National leader Marie Le Pen’s chief of strategy, who says “their world’s crumbling, ours is being built”. Scary, huh?

So what’s going on in Facebook?

First up, a quick insight by sociologist and Green Party councillor for Sliema, Michael Briguglio who predicts that the Trump effect could fuel populist fervour right inside our own backyard.

It gets more ominous for Mark Camilleri, chairman of the National Book Council who sums up the sheer undesirability of a man endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan now becoming the USA’s maximo lider. That photo of the D-Day landing approach… forgetting our history can really be dangerous.

Hold on to your textbooks for this one. But Ingram Bondin, who was active on the ant-censorship front attacks the crisis of centrist Democrat politics, which pretty much made it impossible for someone like Bernie Sanders to win the Democratic nomination in the first place

You can spot similar thinking with James Debono, MaltaToday’s own pollster, who talks about the crisis facing Democrats now that Clinton is a spent force and Sanders too would no longer be eligible for a 2020 election.

But let’s get back to a question everyone is asking: why did people vote for Trump, a bully and a bigot whom we fear will inspire others around the world? Here’s James Debono again.

“That does not make his voters deplorable, but he is. I dislike the new fashion of mentioning the working class only when part of it supports a candidate of the far right... which perpetuates the idea that college-educated and Americans hailing from so many different backgrounds are not working class. At the same time one has to understand why rural, non-cosmopolitan voters are rejecting the mainstream and Hillary, who was subjected to unprecedented attacks not seen in any normal democracy (like ‘I will lock you in jail’), failed to inspire voters for a change they can believe in... unfortunately.”

And Moviment Graffitti’s spokesperson Andre Callus also calls out the lazy critics of ‘democracy’: 

Ok, let's take a deep breath. Lawyer Charles Cassar can help us on this one: let's look to the future, right here on our own small battleground:

Anyone actually enjoying any of this in Malta? Some usual suspects from the nativist 'patriotic' front... Good luck world!

I’m including some useful websites for anyone planning emergency migration. CLICK HERE.