Degree The results of yesterday's U.S. elections show that the majority of the U.S. population is fed up with political correctness, that model of language and thought of the ruling elites that speaks of perfection and progress while administering imperfection or regression.

The picture is interesting: neither the mainstream press, the New York Times, CNN, NBC, nor the glamorous world of show business with Hollywood as its flagship, nor the social networks, nor the ideology that centers its speech on emancipation and justice in sexual identities, have managed to convince Americans. Those who voted for Donald Trump did so against these powerful media. What is more: the candidates of the Republican Party who appeared close to that language, to the heritage of the leaders who have made the last years of the country since Bill Clinton in 1992, were discarded in the primaries: the voters preferred a more radical man, brutal in manners, torn, forceful and with awkward airs but who, precisely because of all that "is not theirs".

Hillary Clinton, presented by her supporters as a guarantee of progress, as the expected triumph of women at the highest level of public life, has been rejected by many women who do not see themselves represented by her, perhaps because they see her rather as the culmination of a whole life of work in power and for power, far from the real needs of many people. Ordinary people who are disconcerted by the new difficulties and by the threats of dissolution that for them entails a globalization controlled in any case by the big financial means, but not by the middle classes or by the workers. If there is a solution, they seem to have thought, it must be elsewhere. And they voted for what least resembles the ruling elites. The effect has surprised many, more those who have effective power or are close to it than those who do not. The cry for the effects of democracy accompanies in these hours many defenders of democracy.

It remains to be seen now whether the predictions of Trump's disaster in the White House were as accurate as those who said he would never get there. Of course, that would be best for everyone, including those of us who did not vote in that election and those who voted for Clinton. There are two big issues that seem crucial: relations with Mexico and economic policy. Both have to do with essential issues of U.S. life that have been the cause of the vote for Trump, and also with the future of the country. Understanding with Mexico is essential to preserve peace in the U.S. itself, and this will require a wise policy, far removed from the populist statements that served Trump in this field during the campaign. The American Economics will now be solicited by concern for one's own home, for the workers of one's own home, rather than living for the profits made by capital anywhere on the planet. At least that is the hope of those who voted for Trump or against what had left them unemployed. Both have to do with an even more delicate underlying question: the model of society that one wants to build.

The one created by the politically correct language seems to have failed, at least for the moment, stopped by a rebellion of voters that will mark a milestone in the history of the oldest democracy.