I can see one positive thing about Trump's election, and that's the death of American exceptionalism. By which I'm not saying that Trump will make America "not great", despite running with the slogan "Make America Great Again", but rather that some people, under his presidency, will finally realize that America is not, in fact, the "greatest country in the world".

Because it isn't. No country is the "best". No country is "the leader of the free world". We're all in this together, and we should never follow a country's example just because it's the unofficial boss of the entire Earth. And with Trump as its president, I think America, or part of it, will finally renounce this idea that they are the best country there is or that there ever will be, and see it for what it is: flawed, and capable of electing the loudest idiot in the room to the highest office in the land. But also capable of becoming better.

The idea that America is the greatest country in the world is toxic, and it was a detriment to the Clinton campaign: against Trump's "Make it great again", Clinton kept saying that it was "Great already" (despite pushing for improvement), and it isn't, and that's why most of the disenfranchised and the disillusioned flocked to Agent Orange's side, hoping for change.

So please, America, stop it. Accept that you are a country like any other, recognize your massive fuck-up, and prevail. You will never be as great as you thought you were, but you can be good.

TL;DR: America was never "the greatest country in the world". Don't let Trump make it the worst.