It’s hard to know what to think after our presidential election. It was a stunning outcome to many, but should it have been? Maybe we’re the ones that don’t see what this country needs. Maybe those of us who think Donald Trump is a disaster in waiting are the ones that are wrong.
We can’t root for Trump to fail, and we can’t root for him to win.
Either result could be a disaster for America. Who wants to have to pick up the pieces of Trump’s feud with NATO, and will Russia’s Valdimir Putin feel that his friendship with Trump enables him to be more aggressive at expanding his empire? Will China feel emboldened to have it their way with Taiwan? Will Israel feel it has a green light to further expand their aggressiveness in the Middle East? U.S. intelligence reveals that Iran plotted to assassinate Trump probably because of his close associations with Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu who appears to be willing to inflame the whole Middle East, and where does that take us?
Lots of questions and we haven’t even started to talk about domestic issues. Will Trump really try to deport millions of immigrants? Trump won’t even attempt to guess a cost of that and what happens to our labor force? We depend on immigrant labor more than most think and what will that do to our economy? What about health care? Remember what Trump thinks about Obamacare?
Many more questions and few answers and yes, it’s probably to early to expect answers but we got lots of clues as to what’s going to happen under Trump, and I don’t think Americans paid attention.
Don Curtis
Stanwood
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