“Trump’s victory was not terribly impressive,” says Washington Post columnist Dan Drezner. I can see the case for that view: More Americans voted against him than for him, and he won several states by razor-thin margins. But c’mon. He won two states that had not gone Republican in 28 years, and one state that hadn’t in 32. He won the most electoral votes of any Republican since 1988. And he managed to win a race that in some sense he “shouldn’t have”–because his favorable ratings remained so low, most Americans considered him unqualified, and so on. For those reasons and others, many people (including me) thought he was bound to lose, and he upended those expectations. Like him or dislike him, his victory was extremely impressive.