How and Why Donald Trump Won!
12 November 2016
By Saeed Qureshi
The paramount wonder is that how Donald Trump a non-political entrant in the
arena of politics triumphed over the seasoned power holders and captured the
presidency of the United States. The victory of Donald Trump as is as
mystifying as it is interesting.
First of all, this is the pattern of American politics throwing surprises and
Donlad Trump's advent into the presidency is certainly one of those wonders.
The other in the recent history was, that of Obama returning as president of
the United States for the second time despite belonging to a minority ethnic
community.
Presumably, with two terms of power in the hands of the Democrats, a kind of
fatigue had dawned on the vast swath of Americans for change at the helm. The
most potent catalyst in this gubernatorial change is the overwhelming role
from the white segments who form 74 per cent of the entire population.
It was this part of the society that decidedly voted for Mr. Trump for his
various slogans which looked on the face ethnic and racial, but appealed to
the white communities who live in a world of their own. Despite America being
an inclusive society still the white Americans maintain a distance from other
ethnic communities like blacks and Hispanics not to speak of Muslims.
But the most overwhelming slogan of Trump was against the Muslims who were
pouring in America. While Hillary was eulogizing Muslims for a variety of good
things, Donald was branding them as terrorists and pledging to root out the
Islamic terrorism in big way. Even in her last speech Hillary didn't miss
mentioning Mr. Khizar Khan and the death of his son for the sake of America.
Ostensibly, it was aimed at winning the Muslims votes and reinforcing the plea
that Muslims were as patriotic as natives Americans. That sacrifice of Mr.
Khan's son was certainly heroic. But to blow it out of proportion enticed the
Muslims towards Hillary but detracted the anti-Muslims lobbies against her and
get closer towards Donlad. While predominant majority have voted for Trump not
all the African-American or Latinos and even Muslims might have voted in favor
Hillary. This time it was a game of demographics that played major part in
determining the results of the 2016 American elections. It might also be a
demonstration of a reaction to Obama who had been perceived to be pro-Muslims
president.
The back-breaking insinuation of emails scandal was consistently and
effectively played up against Hillary by the Republicans and supporters of
Donlad to be a kind of grave violation of official position that could not be
condoned. Donald Trump's misdeeds such as flirting with females and indulging
in wayward sex, making money by right and wrong means and avoiding paying
federal taxes was treated as a private or unofficial misconduct.
The voters inferred that Trump a financial maverick would apply the same skill
and tactics in creating domestic jobs and bringing back offshore jobs and
spurring prosperity. It is perceived of Trump that he might dictate the
hostile or unfriendly states and establish the American writ as the dominant
world power. It is another matter that Trump may not be able to translate all
his pledges into reality and assessing him on that plank is still far away.
Donlad Trump the 45th president of USA never had any official portfolio like
Hillary Clinton who was senator and also the secretary of state during
President Obama first term. He is a nonchalant person with tons of money that
he earned through his ingenuity and business acumen. He didn't pay the federal
taxes yet no one can touch him. He has a harsh, stinging and retaliatory
temperament. He is not in the habit of mincing words. He reacts with the
pungency and venom that disables the opponents.
He bluntness to call Hillary a nasty woman was on the wrong side of the
established ethical norms. He is boorish, sentimental and aggressive. He has
been womanizing to his heart's fill and married three time on the strength of
his wealth and pelf. All these good or bad traits are common to the VIPS,
elites and influential in the society. So, honestly we cannot single out
Donald for doing things that might be irksome to the people demanding or
stepping out of the established ethical standards.
The American political culture has been in place for over two hundred years.
The founding fathers established democracy as fundamental to the system of
governance. That political culture based upon the peoples' franchise has been
in vogue all along. Through that franchise Donlad has been successful in
grabbing the highest office in the United States. So, no questions asked.
He won the elections of 2016 because of non-conventional strategy. He has less
polished and rather rough jargon. He lacks in bureaucratic or diplomatic style
of conversation or sophisticated behavior. People looked at him to be a person
as different from the establishment. His brutish utterances and
anti-immigrants' pledges resonated with the aspirations of the most of the
Americans. The pacification policy of Obama especially with Iran was
distasteful to hardliners from among the political and evangelical circles as
well as the people who perceived such decisions being made at the cost of the
American national interests.
Although Donald has been harping on the theme of the rigged elections but it
is the same system that hoisted him to power and capture the presidency in a
thumping way. His name calling of Hillary such as most corrupt and nasty woman
were taking lightly by the people and may be that the Republicans enjoyed it
thoroughly. Donald managed to paint Hillary in lurid colors, deride her and
prevail.
As pointed out earlier it might have been a kind of fatigue of the people with
8-year long tenure of the Democrats. In the first term Obama attained
brilliant milestones by overcoming the worst recession and halt an economic
meltdown that was a spillover from the Bush ear. He was hailed as a redeemer
and his pacifications at the international arena were also admired.
Yet during his second term, he persistently came under a backlash from his
detractors for his various decisions including Obamacare. He was also
criticized by his Republican opponents for lessening America's military
involvements in conflicts areas the globe. He was bitterly opposed for
brokering a deal with Iran.
The FBI's role in reviving the Email saga just ten days before the culmination
of the 2016 presidential elections may be questioned at a later stage. It
proved to be a stunning and destructive ploy to halt the surge of Hillary in
early voting. There was a sudden downturn in pro- Hillary voting. That one
move dimmed the strong chances of Hillary winning the 2016 presidential
elections.
It appears that 2016 elections have been overtaken more by rumors and
conspiracies and innuendoes than charting out a grand roadmap for the future
of the state. It was a show of competing in denigration, insults abuses,
condemnations, insinuations and name-calling. All these tactics and
instruments were used mostly by the Republican camp that really made a
difference and facilitated the victory of Donlad Trump.
Let us watch what comes ahead and how the future unfolds itself. FBI's role in
reigniting the emails probe just ten days before conclusion of the
electioneering campaign could be viewed as a studied tactic to discredit
Hillary. It is also to be seen if Donlad would in fact erect a wall between
USA and Mexico and whether the cross-border infiltration and undocumented
immigration of the Latinos and South Americans could be stopped. We have to
also watch how Donald Trump is going to implement his agenda aimed at creating
jobs, changing balance of trade in favor of America, nabbing the international
terrorism with focus on Muslims and building a cohesive society.
It is to be seen how he would abolish Obamacare and replace it with a health
system that he deems right. What is going to be his policy relating to social
security and other welfare inputs. With a hold on the House and Senate he is
certainly in a comfortable position to get the bills and laws passed.
Let us watch how America shapes up under the Republican administration and
with a strong-willed president. It seems unlikely that like Bill Clinton he
might face impeachment for his sexual waywardness.
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