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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf Donald Trump wins, it’ll be a new age of darkness
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/04/if-donald-trump-wins-new-age-endarkenmentThe mere imagining of that outcome is inducing anxiety in those far away from the action. I dont just mean obsessives such as me, who spend the midnight hour checking the early voting returns from Washoe County, Nevada. Otherwise normal people also confess to being reduced to nervous wrecks by the thought that Trump might actually win. They chart their mood swings on social media, delighting in hopeful news Hillary Clinton up in ABC News tracking poll! or panicking at any sign the snake-oil salesman might pull it off, such as todays Washington Post headline: Donald Trump has never been closer to the presidency than he is at this moment, I could feel my palms turn clammy....
So a President Trump will change lives far beyond the US. An American leader who believes climate change is a Chinese hoax, who believes terror suspects should be tortured and their family members killed, who believes that Saudi Arabia should have nuclear weapons, who is fascinated by nukes power of devastation and who has asked repeatedly why the US doesnt use them; a man who says, I love war; a man who drools in admiration for Vladimir Putin and whose disregard for Nato, and refusal to promise to defend a member state if attacked, would all but invite Moscow to invade one of the Baltic states such a man would plunge all of us into a dark future. That we are not living in the US will not protect us....
So a Trump presidency would exert a pull beyond Americas shores. Suspicion of migrants, loathing of Muslims, a desire to put up walls and roll back social progress these currents exist everywhere. Were Trump to win, they would have the endorsement of the most powerful office in the world. For eight years, Barack Obama has been a cautionary voice, counselling against the global rush towards xenophobia and insularity. If Trump replaces him, white nationalism will have command of the worlds loudest megaphone. Racists and bigots everywhere will feel validated, vindicated and mobilised.
zanana1
(6,110 posts)I hope there will be 12 Step programs.
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,319 posts)Just saying.
world wide wally
(21,740 posts)1) Brownshirts armed with automatic weapons running amok and playing vigilante with the force of law behind them, and
2) The United States left without an ally in the world and under Russian auspices.
I am going to be sooo pissed off if this happens.
I hope you women save all of us!
gwheezie
(3,580 posts)He's not going to be the all powerful oz. I would rather we don't go through his insane reign before he's stopped but he can't do most of what he thinks he can. I doubt he gets through 1/2 a term.
Don't get me wrong, it will be a disaster & we will suffer needlessly because a bunch of white men got mad but by midterms the gop will be losing so many donors they won't go down with him. Hopefully we won't have to live through it & Hillary wins.
Skittles
(153,147 posts)Donald's entire career essentially amounts to being a con man