Tuesday 8 November 2016

What If Trump Won?

I don't want Trump to win. I don't want either of them to win. Sadly, though, one of them is going to win. What if it were him?

The Democratic Party would have been defeated in the person of the most economically neoliberal and internationally neoconservative nominee imaginable.

It would need to move, as a matter of the utmost urgency, away from the excessive focus on identity issues, and towards the recognition that those existed only within the overarching and undergirding context of the struggle against economic inequality and in favour of international peace.

We are way ahead of that over here, of course. Well, almost everyone whom it concerns is, anyway. There are still problems with the Parliamentary Labour Party and The Guardian.

But is the Parliamentary Labour Party or The Guardian still a thing? Barely, even now. And not at all, if the mighty Clintons had been laid low by, all people, Donald Trump.

There would be no political lessons to be learned, however, from a Clinton victory. "People won't vote for a belching gorilla" would merely have been confirmed as something that we already knew, anyway.

4 comments:

  1. "God grant me a pro-manufacturing, anti-globalist, anti-anti-Russian President, but not yet."

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    1. "God grant me a pro-manufacturing, anti-globalist, anti-anti-Russian President, but not this one."

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  2. Neil Clark has just endorsed Trump. As has John Pilger.

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