If there is war on the streets of the USA, Hillary will be to blame
Donald Trump won this election because the Democrats put up the most disliked woman in America,
IAM really scared following the election of Donald Trump as president of the USA. The very fate of democracy is at stake. The post-election protests after the election are a disgrace and an affront to democracy. Like him or hate him, Trump was elected in a fair election. These far-left liberals burning the American flag, wrecking cars and threatening, to quote one lunatic, that “there will be blood on the streets”, is an outrage. Imagine how the American media that almost uniformly supported Hillary Clinton would have reacted if the position was reversed?
The people of Hungary in 1956 and the Czechs in 1968 took to the streets to protest against the subjugation of their country by the Soviets. These arrogant fools in America seem to think they have common cause with men and women who risked their lives against oppression.
Another deranged young American took to the streets and demanded that Mrs Clinton immediately sue the USA to declare the election null and void. One banner read: “I am gay and in love. I am scared.” Perhaps he should go to the Arabian Gulf from where money flowed to the Clinton Foundation. There, gays are executed.
These riots were fuelled by the Clinton rhetoric during the campaign. She painted Trump as a Hitler-like figure and of his supporters, she said “you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it”. If, as is suggested, there will be war on the streets in America, then Clinton will be substantially responsible.
Trump won this election because the Democratic Party put up the only candidate that could lose to Trump. Clinton was the most disliked woman in America; mistrusted by a vast swathe of the electorate; and her husband’s adulterous history lessened the impact of Trump’s sexist remarks among older, white women.
Trump’s campaign was masterly. He knew that minorities would vote for a Democrat so he pitched his message to white men and women over 40 and they voted for him in droves. He also understood that migration was the hottest topic, not only in the USA but in the world. Brexit and Trump were victories fashioned on the back of the fear of unregulated migration. In the country of 9/11, fear of Muslims was rampant and, again, the president-elect struck a chord.
Barack Obama, despite campaigning more than any other sitting president in history, failed to deliver the numbers for Clinton that had voted for him. In an extraordinary gambler’s throw on television, he suggested that illegal immigrants could vote without fear of reprisal. It must have backfired; such was the outrage.
The media and the pollsters must take the blame for the greatest election surprise since Harry Truman over Thomas Dewey in 1948. Then, polling was in its infancy and the media was not ruled by “radical feminists”. This time around, media commentators sat in the studios and newsrooms and instead of going out in the field, believed the pollsters.
The polls got it wrong because invariably people gave the answer the questioner wanted, rather than say, “of course we should kick the Mexicans back over the border to Tijuana”. Following the failure of the polls in the UK election and referendum and now in the USA, the future of this industry is now in doubt.
Last week in DC many senior Democratic Party strategists privately admit that they allowed themselves to be railroaded in to giving Clinton a free ride to the nomination. There was no male testosterone to challenge the feminist agenda to push a flawed, female candidate.
The party now finds itself on the horns of a dilemma. It lost not only the election but governors, senators and congressmen lost seats. The result is that the party has no young talent that could contest in 2020. Imagine a future of Fine Gael if in a general election they lost Leo Varadkar, Simon Harris and Simon Coveney and were left with Enda Kenny and Charlie Flanagan.
People in Ireland received a completely one-sided report of the campaign and the candidates. The Irish media liberals and pro-women lobby saw only one side to the story. Many of the reporters had never travelled beyond an Irish bar in New York.
A glance at the map shows that Middle-America decided this election. The opinions in New York, Boston and San Francisco are completely different from those in Dubuque, Iowa; Green Bay, Wisconsin; or Billings, Montana.
Fox News is seen as a microphone for right wingers. The coverage this week made interesting watching. As I stayed up all night watching the TV, I flicked channels. While Fox was calling it too close to call, rival CNN was declaring a likely Clinton landslide.
At about 3am EST with the result declared, the faces of the CNN panel reflected their disappointment. It resembled the studio of a sports channel where the home team had lost.
The critics of Trump cited his lack of experience while conveniently forgetting that Obama came to the White House as a neophyte. The president-elect has made no secret of his desire to “Make America great”. He has been roundly criticised here and abroad. However, he is a president for America first and foremost and that is what his supporters voted for.
That spells bad news for Ireland and we are now sandwiched between our two largest trading partners, who have put their own personal fortunes first on the agenda.
Perhaps Enda Kenny should have tempered his racist remarks, Micheal Martin his support for Hillary and Mary Mitchell O’Connor her disgust with Trump.
A bowl of shamrock and a pint of Guinness may not cut it on March 17, 2017.
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