Are protestors against Trump’s victory nuts? Did they expect every American to be head- over-heels for Hillary Clinton? Why? America is supposed to be a multiparty democracy in which a candidate with majority support wins. And of 46 per cent-plus Americans who went to the polls, Trump was favourite. He had some original ideas about changing the status quo in the line of foreign policy, trade policy, domestic investment, employment creation, new methods of war against terrorism, walling the border with Mexico and so on. What did Hillary Clinton offer Americans that was exciting and new? Nothing, except sniping at Trump for implicit tax evasion. Anyhow, we know that all the American superrich except Warren Buffet and a couple others don’t want to be taxed. My one consolation, had Clinton won, would have been that at long last, America had a female Pesident. I itch to see women in decision-making roles; they are bearers and natural custodians of human life and should be allowed their good role of nurturing humanity. Margaret Thatcher’s reactionary tendencies notwithstanding, where a man and woman are judged to be on par on any endeavour, a woman deserves an affirmative action award!
Trump’s policies as enunciated during his campaign, at least some of them, sound downright crazy. I am thinking of his Mexican wall and steep trade tariffs against China and Mexico among others – 35 to 45 per cent trade tariffs is prohibitive! Enrique Pena Nieto the Mexican President is rightly worried. However I don’t think he need be overtly worried. Trump won’t commit American taxpayer’s money for wall construction; he expects Mexico to pay for the monstrosity they don’t want. Since the wall won’t benefit Mexico, Enrique must just laugh it off. The illegal immigrants will continue streaming in, defying police dogs and their handlers at the San Diego border post. Trump, a successful businessman should know the Californian economy which not so long ago was the fifth largest economy in the world owes its enormous size to the illegal immigrants’ labour. The wall rhetoric is so much eyewash.
