Comment: Popular uprising against Trumpism

The last votes have not yet been counted - and yet it can be said: the midterm elections in the USA are a brilliant reckoning with the president and his policies. The disenchantment of Donald Trump has begun.

It was he who declared the election a vote on himself. It is his defeat, even though he was not on the ballot. And it is a devastating defeat. Even Texas went to Democrat James Talarico for Senate. That alone is historical. The much talked about “blue wave” is reality.

For ten years now, Donald Trump has been the epicenter of American politics - sending shockwaves through the oldest democracy of modern times and, at times, throughout the world. On November 8, 2016, US citizens elected a man as the 45th president of the leading Western power who had until then been viewed far beyond American borders - and often with a somewhat arrogant attitude - at best as a figure of fun.