Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland was the first at the end of the 19th century. It would be another 130 years to see a second US president elected to serve two non-consecutive terms – and that is Donald Trump. This is enough to highlight how the feat is anything but simple. Indeed, it is so difficult that all – or nearly all – political analysts, the media and much of the public considered Kamala Harris the natural favorite, or at least able to play it out at the last vote, despite the hastily prepared candidacy and some doubts within the Democratic Party itself. Trump's victory will also inevitably have great repercussions globally and in Europe in particular, both from an economic-political and military perspective – most importantly because it happened in such a clear-cut way. We will talk about it further in this interview with Vincenzo Galasso, full professor of Economics and Head of the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University.

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