The American people have spoken and from an outsider’s point of view, it defied all logic . The Republicans had a landslide victory, winning all 3 votes for the presidency, house and senate. They can now technically bulldozed their proposals through with little resistance. There will probably be none of the government deadlock issues that Obama had faced over the last 8 years. The Democrat party had just realized their worst case scenario.
Trump’s victory speech looks conciliatory and he calls for everyone to help rebuild the country, that politics is “nasty stuff”. A very different picture from the past 15 months of the brutal campaign. Would he unite the country or make it more divisive? Would he have a team staffed with just his own people or only the most competent ones, regardless of party? The first 100 days will tell. Reality TV for real now. The Americans want change, they will get change. In what form, only time will tell. It’s America first now, the rest of the world can wait.
Reminds me of the Gore/Bush 2000 fight. The rest of the world saw Gore as a more capable candidate but he lost. Bush went on to wage wars after 9/11 and it cumulate with the 2008 GFC crisis which swept Obama to power.
Twitter stock price will probably be only one of the few that will show a positive rise tonight.
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