Consider this: Just 38 percent of voters in the national exit poll said that Trump was qualified to be president. (52 percent said the same of Clinton.) And yet, he won the White House on Tuesday night.

That disconnect can only be explained by a desire to blow up the whole system. And I don't just mean the political system. I mean every elite and establishment institution that's ever assumed they know best -- the media very much included. Trump is the collective middle finger from all the people who think the elites have laughed them off and dismissed them for too long. It is the average man's revenge -- made all the more remarkable by the fact that the vessel of this rage against elites and the establishment is a billionaire who tells anyone who asks how smart and rich he is.

How Trump happened then, while remarkable, can be understood and analyzed. What Trump will do as president is a far more difficult question to answer.

Trump's policy positions were loosely defined, at best. His lone consistent position throughout his life is on trade, where he has long favored a more protectionist view, suspicious of broad trade deals like NAFTA or the Trans-Pacific Partnership.  His immigration stance -- build a wall and make Mexico pay for it -- seems far-fetched. His plans on taxes, on education, on energy are all sketches of ideas as opposed to specific policy proposals.

How does Trump relate to the GOP Congressional majorities he is going to enjoy? He ran against the Republican establishment -- in the primary and general election campaigns. He vilified them as tone-deaf to the changes happening not only within their party but also in the country. What now? Trump sits in the catbird's seat. Republican leaders need to come to him -- but is he willing to accept them into the new Republican Party he has forged?

And what of the Democratic party? Hillary Clinton began the 2016 campaign as the strongest non-incumbent front-runner in the history of modern politics. Her presumed strength glossed over the fact that a) a significant amount of liberal unrest -- represented in the primary by Bernie Sanders -- remained toward her and b) the Democratic bench is remarkably thin.

What does it mean for world markets, that plunged as the likelihood of a Trump victory came into shape? Or the U.S. relationship with foreign countries? Or our involvement in foreign conflicts?

There are many questions that Trump's victory creates. And more I can't even think of.

Here's what I do know: Trump's victory is the single most stunning political development I have ever witnessed. And it's not close. This is the equivalent of dropping a refrigerator -- or maybe 10 refrigerators -- into a small-ish pond. There are obvious, giant waves. But there are 1,000 other ripples that we might not even see today -- or might not even exist today.

Cataclysm. Plain and simple.