"A sea change in thought is taking place in the West.

Liberalism appears to be a dying faith. America's elites may still preach their trinity of values: diversity, democracy, equality. But the majorities in America and Europe are demanding that the borders be secured and Third World immigrants kept out.

The next president disbelieves in free trade. He wants a border wall. He questions the wisdom of our Mideast wars and the need for NATO. He is contemptuous of democratist dogma that how other nations rule themselves is our business. He rejects transnationalism and globalism.

"There is no global anthem, no global currency, no certificate of global citizenship," said Trump in Cincinnati, "We pledge allegiance to one flag, and that flag is the American flag. From now on, it's going to be America first. ... We're going to put ourselves first."

That's not Adlai Stevenson or Jimmy Carter or Barack Obama.

Nothing seems settled or certain. All is in flux. But change is coming. "Things are in the saddle, and ride mankind."