Exactly a year ago, Donald Trump was in the middle of a mudslinging battle with his rivals Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio in the Republican Primaries. He edged them out eventually against all odds and yet proved wrong most of the pollsters and political pundits to crush Hillary Clinton's dream to get elected for arguably the most powerful position on earth. Today the President Elect Trump finally graduated to the 45th President of the United States of America.
As the winter Washington rains washed off the dust as it settled down, the hype and hyper associated with Inaguration Ceremony slowly boils down to reality, the new Commander in Chief will have his hands full. Luxury of insurmountable power he has, the unflinching loyalty of his supporters he has, but time is the luxury he doesn't have. As the world holds it breath, struggling to predict the future of an uncertain world order under an equally unpredictable Trump, here is my take on the years ahead of him at the helm of affairs.
Protectionism and insourcing will be the flavor of the time in a world of rising population and automation, when Drones and Robots have started replacing the humans but can't replace the human ethos. When America sneezes, the world catches cold. It has sneezed and a trend has begun to make and hire things at home - very soon the whole world is going to catch this fever.
US has for way too long been burdened with NATO and UN. It's now the time for some reality check, especially on NATO. Let Germans, British, French et all stand on their own legs, rather than staying forever young after World War II for US to cradle them. Trump's anathema towards United Nations, a bloated bureaucracy which should be dumped into Atlantic has the unstinting support of many.
On fighting Terrorism, Trump is going to be stern and clamp down on the selective entities like ISIS, while hardly bothering to bother those terror bodies who haunt others, aka India. Sorry Trump's fans back home who feel that the Right leaning Republican President is going to be a natural ally to the BJP led government. The American brand of Conservatism isn't exactly the same as the RSS brand of Conservatism practiced back home.
Here are some examples which may not sound so musical as they don't align with the leitmotif of the Right Wing forces back home. First, American Conservatism is Church centric, where as our RSS is no fan of Christians or Christianity.
Secondly, the Conservatives in Coke Land are staunch believers in American Exceptionalism which has nothing to do with our own brand of Conservatism back home.
Thirdly, Guns are the sine qua non American Conservatives are big supporters of Guns, whereas our RSS folks could never graduate beyond Lathis (Sticks). Trump is a die hard advocate of all the above three.
The curtain comes down on a long day of celebration, with the Inaguration Ball Orchestra continuing late into the evening. A new day approaches, a new era commences, the future of which only time will bear testimony.
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