With Trump’s victory comes ignominy for some and vindication for others.

The most humiliated are surely the families who have presided over the country for the last 28 years — the Bushes, the Clintons, and the Obamas.

In addition to those who led the country astray for globalist profits, those who vouched for them should be feeling the burn of shame.

Trump’s election heralded the death knell for the neoconservative, Establishment wing of the GOP. This faction, which finally secured its grip on the Republican Party with the election of George W. Bush, began to take over the Republican Party under Bush Sr.’s leadership. Jeb Bush’s failure in the primaries represented the rejection of his family’s legacy,

The Clintons, who gave us NAFTA and normalized trade relations with China, accelerated the nation’s devastating relationship with free trade agreements and globalization — a relationship which voters also rejected resoundingly on Tuesday.

And Hillary Clinton, who thought she could skirt the law all the way to the Oval Office, found out that the American people will indeed hold their leaders to account, and will not look the other way merely because one’s surname happens to be Clinton.

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Then there are the Obamas. This election was supposed to see a Clinton victory, it was supposed to be the coup de grâce in Obama’s quest to fundamentally change America. But Trump was victorious — and his victory was a wholesale rejection of Obama’s legacy.

Barack and Michelle’s pleas were not enough to cobble together enough electoral votes to stop Trump’s anti-globalist, anti-progressive counter-revolution. Trump’s victory also represents a rejection of the Obama’s obsession with celebrity. Clearly they care little for vegetable gardens and parties with Jay-Z and Beyoncé. The American people don’t want a president who poses — they want one who leads.

In addition to those who led the country astray for globalist profits, those who vouched for them should be feeling the burn of shame. Trump is the first candidate in living memory who has actually campaigned on getting the banks out of the Beltway, and freeing D.C. from the lobbyists’ grip.

Bernie Sanders led his own revolution far more in line with Trump’s than Clinton’s hollow promises, yet he and other so-called progressives — such as Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren — backed the Goldman Sachs candidate instead, lured no doubt by the promise of access to those in the elite globalist club, their 30 pieces of silver.

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Journalists and pundits who routinely dismissed and denounced Trump should also feel great embarrassment. “But now it turns out to be a much bigger thing: that there is a tidal wave of revolt against globalization, against the wave of immigration that over the last 20-30 years, against the results of deindustrialization,” wrote David Brooks on Tuesday.

“Even though the employment rate is going down, when you add in the number of people who are out of the labor force, you can get a really big number of families who are seriously disrupted, of family breakdown, the fact that Christians over the last few years have felt completely under assault in this country, because of some of the Supreme Court decisions, and so you can add up a lot factors that were in play [to explain the revolt that led to Trump’s rise],” he continued.

The fact that it took him until the moment of Trump’s victory to realize as much is damning. He’s not alone. Michael Gerson also completely misunderstood the Trump phenomenon. “The political comparison between the Trump movement and the Brexit coalition is weak,” he wrote in October.

Then of course there are those like “Morning Joe” duo Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, who befriended Trump during the primaries only to turn on him in response to progressive and Establishment hysteria over his continued success.

Like Brooks and Gerson, they repeatedly said a Trump win was impossible — and they repeatedly peddled the lie that Trump’s campaign was somehow fueled by hate. Either those who are supposed to be experts on politics understand it little better than the average high school student, or they were willfully spreading disinformation.

But while Trump’s victory has shamed many, it has indeed vindicated others. Vice President-Elect Mike Pence is of course a major winner. His acceptance of the vice presidential nod and successful, passionate defenses of Trump and his vision for America have positioned him as a lead authority in the Republican Party.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was criticized heavily when he endorsed Trump, but he weathered the harsh commentary and proved that, unlike his detractors, he actually understands the American people. He “really believed that this was the direction the American people wanted to go in, and that the voters of our party were speaking and that we needed to listen,” Christie said Wednesday on “The Laura Ingraham Show.”

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Conservative stalwarts former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani were also widely mocked for their support for Trump, and like Christie have proved that it is they who are truly tapped into America’s pulse. “Trump represents very real change. I think he will aggressively put America’s interests first,” Gingrich said at a Munk Debate in September. “That’s a very different frame of reference than the way we’ve negotiated over the last couple of generations,” he said.

The few figures in conservative media who challenged the prevailing NeverTrump winds — Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter — have also been vindicated by Trump’s win, as was Steve Bannon, former CEO of Breitbart News. When Bannon was brought on Trump’s campaign, many in the media said it was a sign of an inevitable campaign implosion. Yet Bannon set Trump on a course that allowed Kellyanne Conway to take the reins and successfully steer Trump to victory.

Conway is another person for whom Trump’s victory is a clear win. Conway was frequently attacked by the Left for being a woman who worked for the allegedly “misogynistic” Trump. Now Conway is the first woman in American history to have managed a successful presidential campaign.