DANGER IN TRUMPVILLE
By Divine Design News Service
Progressive thinkers in the United States, leaders of Democratic countries, millions of Americans and citizens throughout the world remain shocked that the November 8th election resulted in a reality talk-show host, accused sexual assaulter of women and late-night twitter gunman becoming the 45th president of the world’s most powerful country.
Paul Krugman, one of the country’s most acclaimed economists, is among those that expect the worse from Trump, who for years promoted the allegation that President Obama was not born in the United States, and consequently had no right to be president.
“Let’s be clear,” Krugman recently wrote in an editorial column, “Donald Trump in the White House is an epic mistake. In the long run, its consequences may well be apocalyptic. Power has fallen into the hands of a man who does not suffer from an excess of either virtue or prudence.”
Krugman, a former professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote that Trump’s policies will be very bad for the economy, and will harm the very people who voted for him.
“His policies will hurt, not help, the American working class,” he said. Making ‘America Great Again’, the rallying call that propelled Trump to the height of power, will prove to be little more than a cruel and sad joke, said Krugman whose thinking is followed and respected by leaders throughout the globe.
Others are worried about the aides that Trump has surrounded himself with. Particularly, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Stephen Bannon, chairman of Beitbart News. Bannon, who has demonstrated pronounced hostilities towards racial minorities, has been chosen as a senior White House counsel.
Giuliani, a proponent of the policing policy known as “stop and frisk,” which has been ruled unconstitutional by an appellate court, has been rumored to be Trump’s choice as Attorney General. There are many political commentators who believe that naming the former New York City mayor to head the Justice Department would be draconian.
Analysts have concluded that Trump’s victory indicated a clear demarcation, in beliefs and attitude, between Americans who live in rural and urban/suburban areas.
A Gallup Poll concluded earlier this year found that those who were inclined to vote for Trump lived in “racially and culturally isolated zip codes.” The poll also concluded that supporters of the president-elect were found mostly in areas where there were few college graduates and where there was little, if any exposure to blacks, Asians and Hispanics.
Charles Blow, a CNN commentator, who writes a column for the New York Times, said that the nation was deeply divided along demographic lines.
“We are living in two divergent Americas at odds, and at battle,” Blow recently wrote in one of his columns. “Trump’s America won this battle.”
Leah Aden, the senior counselor for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, whose organization led a national effort to ensure the fairness of the national election said, “We live to fight another day.”
