“…..  Obama was struggling to understand Donald Trump's victory.  "What if we were wrong?," the outgoing US President asked aides riding with him in the armoured presidential limousine. He had read a column asserting that liberals had forgotten how important identity was to people and had promoted an empty cosmopolitan globalism that made many feel left behind. "Maybe we pushed too far," Obama said. "Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe." His aides reassured him that he still would have won had he been able to run for another term and that the next generation had more in common with him than with Trump. Obama, the first black man elected president, did not seem convinced. "Sometimes I wonder whether I was 10 or 20 years too early," he said. In the weeks after Trump's election, Obama went through multiple emotional stages, according to a new book by his longtime adviser Benjamin Rhodes. At times, the departin...