The old world is dying. We are in a dangerous interregnum — between periods, with several paths to take. With the election of Donald Trump, we have taken steps down a very dark one.

But to get off it, we cannot return to the path that led us here. We are here precisely because we have gone down that path for so long.

Trump represents a break with many aspects of neoliberalism. His campaign has lurched toward barbarity and promises to replace the whip of the market and the universal worker with fear of difference, nativism, the protection of decaying privilege, and the interests of an aspirational business class that is too weak to complete in global markets.