Beyond the cultural wars’ rhetoric between red and blue states, population shifts have the potential to reshape the national potential landscape.

During Obama’s eight years in power, America’s wars in the Middle East ground slowly onward.

It was created as an antidote to the prickly, male-dominated world of dive bar pool — all the exhilaration without the bickering turf wars with bar regulars.

Almost a decade later, it was clear that Bashar al-Assad's Russian, Iranian and Lebanese allies had other wars to think about.

Throughout his campaign, President-elect Donald Trumpov promised national prosperity and global peace, saying he would quickly drive down the cost of groceries in local supermarkets and bring deadly overseas wars to an abrupt end.