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Election winner Biden: Hardly any government or region in the world mourns Donald Trump's presidency, but there is still no euphoria.
Photo: Brian Snyder / REUTERS
No, Donald Trump did not invent right-wing populism - and yet he was its patron saint with a worldwide signal effect.
The impresario of a trumpeting, contemptuous political style.
His tweets have vulgarized the political debate not only in the United States: fake news instead of arguments.
His nationalism and open racism have legitimized his kindred spirits' contempt for democracy worldwide.
Tenor: If the leader of the most powerful democracy talks like this, can't it be forbidden for the Hungarian or Serbian prime ministers?
Or: Why should Brazil protect the rainforests when the US President gives up climate protection completely?
"It feels like we've just done an exorcism."
Francis Fukuyama, US political scientist
"It feels like we've just carried out an exorcism," says US political scientist Francis Fukuyama after the long vote count.
Is the Trump era over now?
Can President Joseph Robinette Biden Repair America's Image?
Can he renew covenants and treaties?
Will the USA leave the path of rowdy national egoism under Biden?
Can he make up for the enormous damage done to the political culture?
Who is happy?
Who regrets the election result?
SPIEGEL correspondents all over the world interviewed politicians, intellectuals and scientists.
Here are their assessments:
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