The United States will essentially be and look the same, irrespective of who is the President and which political party is in power.
With politics being as unpredictable as it sometimes tend to be, it might worth posing the question: If Donald Trump were to win the presidential election in the United States and become the next POTUS, would it make the country substantially different?
Would it, indeed?
As we watch the Republicon Party establishment ruthlessly and shamelessly go about sanitising Donald Trump and preparing him for his aspired ascension into the office of the President of the United States, while it and Fox News intensify their demonisation of Hillary Clinton, the spoken or unspoken question on our lips is clear.
It is, what would happen if Donald Trump were to win the presidential election and form the next government of the U.S?
Would he really build his 'wall of Jericho' between the U.S and Mexico, to keep out illegal migrants to the U.S? And, if he were to go ahead with his promise to do so, would he only use legal Mexican and Latino immigrants to build it, or would he restrict it to American nationals; probably as part of a job creation initiative?
Would a Donald Trump Presidency makes good - or bad - his Islamophobic views and promises on how he would treat people from predominantly Muslim countries who want to move to the United States? If so, how would he respond to the almost hostile reaction which his Islamophobic policies would elicit from both American Muslims, and Muslims and Islamic countries around the world?
Does he imagine that countries like Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan, Indonesia, Qatar, et al, would simply take the 'pragmatic approach' and carry on with a 'business as usual' attitude, despite the significant changes in the 'facts on the ground'?
And what could we expect the policy of a Donald Trump Administration towards the Syrian proxy war to be? Would it be to wage an all out war on Daesh, probably with a more solid - atleast, publicly - alliance with Turkey, Saudi Arabia and her Sunni regimes allies? Could this be the quid pro quo which President Trump would offer Muslim regimes that he has affronted with his 'keep them out' approach towards Muslims wanting to move to the U.S.?
And what of the Russia/U.S relationship? Is President Putin already recalibrating his Syria proxy war strategy, in order to accommodate the Russia's assessment of the impact of Donald Trump's likely policy towards the conflict, were he to win the presidential election?
After all, one thing we can probably take as a given, is that a Trump Administration would most likely result in increased American military action in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, as the military-industrial complex's guardians push for more arms sales, in their quest to maintain and increase their 'conflict profits.'
With regards to America's continuing affliction with racial injustice and oppression, could we also see a Donald Trump presidency leading to a worsening situation? Would he, for example, keep his promise to allow the police to return to and intensify the process of militarising their forces, with equipment which should remain within the American military?
With the support of ultra conservatives like Rudy Giuliani, that self-declared saviour of the African American, President Trump would probably make their oppression more, and not less, grievous.
Similarly, what would President Trump do with ObamaCare; would he repeal or amend it? Judging from its unpopularity with the Republicons, it is likely that President Trump would seek to make radical changes to it; if he were to get enough support from the Senate.
And what of his promise to create more jobs for Americans; would that lead to more restrictions in America's trade with other countries, such as China? Which would most probably result in international trade wars and political and further economic stability?
In summary, it seems to me that, to the extent that America's system of government is self-sustaining and seems to do its own thing, irrespective of who is the president and which political party forms the government, a Trump Presidency would not result in any enduring major changes in the internal and external policies of the United States of America. To this extent, although it does matter in the short-term whether Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton is the next POTUS, in the long-term, it does not matter a great deal; whereas it might have, if Bernie Sanders had been in the running and had been elected.
We have seen how America's system of government, through what it calls its 'checks and balances', take prisoner of President Obama, and transform him, instead of him being able to transform the system. Notwithstanding the fact that Donald Trump is a Republicon, there is nothing to suggest that 'the system' will not continue to protect itself from durable radical changes, by doing the same thing with him and his grand and radical ideas.
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