Well now we have it. A number of possibilities arise and this is only the first attempt to put them down. One can hope that Trump is a good salesman and that the rhetoric was only manipulation and that sanity will be the reality. If so the problem is stopping the people who do not know they were being manipulated. Like all of the the candidates for President the Republicans have put forth in the last sixteen years, or so, they have to be crazy to get the nomination and then try to act normal for the general election–Trump turned this on its head by being crazy the entire time and proving this to be a winning strategy. This is not actually to ignore the problem of Clinton (I did say she should not have run because she has too much baggage years before she ever announced) running but this post is about Trump’s Presidency.
Some predictions: The affordable care act will be destroyed. Twenty million Americans will lose health care coverage including the ones that need it that voted and supported Trump throughout. Insurance premiums for those who still have coverage will increase at a greater rate than they ever did under the ACA.
Hate crimes will increase over the next six months because the rhetoric was all about hate, for Hillary, Blacks, Hispanics, Muslims and Women. These crimes have been “justified” by the American people–the law of unintended consequences?
The oil and gas industry will reverse any environmental gains achieved over the last eight years. Massive tax breaks for the industry and a Congress that is beholden to big special interests on a blatant and outspoken way. Those industries stocks are up this morning.
The tax cuts for the rich that will be given will increase the disaster that has hit the middle and lower classes. Even conservative think-tanks predicted a five trillion dollar increase in the national debt using Trump’s tax plan. This is the usual result, though predicted to be higher than normal, for Republican Presidents. The problem is the people harmed most by these cuts will be the poor whites that supported him most.
A Trump administration will be filled with scandal which will continue throughout. First he will force the IRS to stop investigating his finances. He will out Nixon Nixon by using the CIA, FBI, Secret Service and the IRS to attack those that do not do what he wants. Nixon’s philosophy was do unto them before they do unto me and Trump shows every sign that this will be his philosophy.
In normal American fashion, with only one exception I remember, the People will vote in a Democratic Congress in two years. Impeachment hearings will begin in Trump’s third term if any of the Nixonian governing methods are accomplished as predicted above.
More to come I am sure.
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