And so began the Great Age of Trump, with an agenda fuelled by social media and hunger for revolt

The Age of Trump has begun, a new chapter in American history where social-media-driven people power will set the nation’s agenda and redefine government’s role in its life.

Historians compare Trump’s triumph to the rise of Andrew Jackson in 1828 and Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932. Both presidents defeated long-entrenched powers, cobbled together new constituencies from the grass roots, defied the distant power brokers of finance and defined new, sweeping roles for the presidency and government.

They, and Trump, won their elections because they gave voice to a population that had long felt disenfranchised.

“A new unwritten chapter in American politics has opened,” said Pope McCorkle, a former Democratic consultant based in Durham, North Carolina, who’s now with the Sanford School of Public Policy.

This new epoch promises to bring voters together supporting different ways of governing and campaigning. Trump was the first major presidential candidate to fully harness the power of social media, where like-minded people can come together and put their muscle behind single issues.