Congratulations, President-elect Trump. But don’t take too much credit for the win.

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Congratulations, President-elect Donald Trump: You have won a resounding victory. But before you buy into the upcoming avalanche of media speculation that your victory will change the world, here are a few facts to keep you from becoming a megalomaniac despot.

Fact No. 1: You won with the help of FBI director James Comey and Wikileaks, which according to U.S. officials is a disguised Russia-supported organization. This is a first in American history, and should keep you from giving yourself all the credit for your victory.

Granted, you also won because tens of millions of Americans — mostly white males — felt left behind in the globalized economy. They bought into your narrative that the United States is losing jobs because of Mexico and China, when in fact it’s losing jobs — and will continue to do so — because of automation and robots.

But you most likely wouldn’t have won if the FBI’s Comey hadn’t taken the highly questionable step of announcing less than two weeks before the Nov. 8 elections that he had found thousands of new emails from Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton that needed to be investigated.

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