Perhaps the question that everyone should be asking is not why it happened, but how it happened. How did so many people - especially the very high-powered team of experts that Kamala Harris had - not see this coming and act accordingly?

A convicted felon/political persecutee; an avowed misogynist/anti-woke warrior; a liar/anti-mainstream media visionary; a fraudster/victim of deep state conspiracy; a moral and financial bankrupt/brave beacon for truth; and an insurrectionist/courageous patriot is about to become the 47th president of the United States of America.

It doesn't seem as if there are enough pejoratives to properly describe the sheer scale of Donald Trump's perfidy or enough adjectives to encompass his awesomeness - depending on your viewpoint. But whether anyone likes it or not, more than half the American public voted to return Trump to the White House, making him the first Republican president in two decades to win the popular vote as well as the US Electoral College.

There have been column centimetres aplenty - and emotions spilling over on air - ever since Tuesday, 5 November as pundits and commentators try to work out why Trump staged the greatest comeback in American history. There will be plenty more opining (and whining) as the days tick down to his inauguration in January.

Perhaps the question everyone should be asking is not why it happened, but how it happened. How did so many people - especially the very high-powered team of experts that...