I know from my conversations with people in the administration that every world leader that Obama met in Berlin, in Peru, in Athens was extremely alarmed by Trump's election. That very much includes Angela Merkel.

I know, too, that millions and millions of people voted for Trump not because they are cartoon racists, but because they did not like Hillary Clinton for a variety of reasons, because they had real economic and social grievances.

A huge constituency, such as Hispanics, is not 100 percent Democratic.

You are losing out because Mexican rapists are taking your job.

Trump's election is part of an international trend that's no less alarming, in Britain, in France, in Germany, in Austria. Vladimir Putin wanted to see this outcome no less than he would like to see nationalists and anti-Europeanists win in France.

You are losing because of Jewish bankers.

As journalists, we need to find every avenue to distribute our work, and try to be so good that we become increasingly more influential than before.