Trump's win suggests shift in US electorate

Some see second term as a pushback by populists against a perceived elite

The day after Donald Trump's election to a second term as US president, observers wondered what it suggested about the US electorate.

The New York Times, in a headline at the top of its website on Wednesday, framed Trump's election as a "populist revolt against an elite vision of the US".

"In her closing rally on the Ellipse last week, Kamala Harris scorned Donald J. Trump as an outlier who did not represent America," wrote Peter Baker. "That is not who we are," she declared.