Trump rebellion succeeds

Imagine an earthquake measuring 10.6 on the Richter scale hitting mainland USA. OMG is the likely mass reaction. Imagine also a six-year-old dropping and shattering a bottle of honey leaving shards of splintered and broken glass everywhere! The mass reaction would most likely be what have you done? Combine the two happenstances and you have a good measure of mass reaction even among Trumpites, to the success of the Trump Rebellion in a country borne out of a rebellion …the Boston tea party and revolt against the British crown. The American terrain remains as President elect Donald Trump has proven, fertile for individual revolt and mass rebellion against institutions and a history of certainties.
 
Last week’s elections were very divisive, very unpredictable and unsporting; little surprise, therefore, the American nation and people are still giddy, confused and in utter disbelief. As I write there are hints on radio, on television and in reactions from people as they woke up to the reality of Trump’s victory that it is a bad dream at worst a nightmare that will float away.
 
The losing candidate went home in the early hours, from her headquarters at the Javits Centre, midtown Manhattan unable to make a concessionary statement. This in reverse was the threat that candidate Trump had hauled at the campaign exposing him as a threat to democracy. The shoe moved to the other foot? There was an U customary eerie silence in my NW corner of the US capital
 
It is not midday yet and continuing analysis from the chattering classes are still skirting round an acceptance and movement of gears into post presidential elections….no one is asking about policies, transition, inauguration issues which would have been awash the TV screens and internet and radio waves if Hillary Clinton and the loud minority, had won as we now can certainly say.

Linkages and comparisons eastwards across the North Atlantic to the UK. Brexit have become compelling. Will President Trump dance with Theresa May at the White House and get as chummy as Margaret Thatcher UK Prime Minister and President Reagan, as we the people and progressive African governments led by Nigeria recollect painfully, to deny freedom to South Africans from the apartheid regime? Will President Trump grant comfort to le Penn and similar fascist forces in Europe? How will relations with Russia’s Putin play out in Syria, Eastern Europe, NATO, but especially in the Ukraine? Will the American President anoint the seizure of the Crimea at last?

On the domestic front, Latinos suddenly described as the sleeping giant awoken by candidate Trump did not deliver Florida or anywhere else and remains stymied this morning of Trump’s victorious rebellion.

The good old victims of Caucasian America, the African American, close to 20 million, impoverished, poorly educated and uncompetitive in the U.S. plane except as cleaners, doormen bouncers and entertainers, are distinctly worried. The African American press for whatever it is worth came out this morning declaring that the Obama gains have been replaced by gloom and urging mass rebellion of their own people against the threats they see a Trump Presidency poses to life and liberty for the African American now that racism has been armed with control of the FBI  and other civil security institutions in which they are underrepresented and which down to street policing have acted as if black lives do not matter, leaving the average African American perfect candidate for imprisonment or being lawfully murdered by law enforcement agencies.
  
This is where one must consider the place of the social and political institutions of a matured democracy in this moment of a successful rebellion against current civilities and accepted international laws and conventions, and dare one add values. Values which protect minority interests, gender rights, immigrants fleeing wars, etc.
 
At the core of this institutional regime will be the constitution of the United States of America. It’s federalist sensibilities, its separation of powers mechanism, its powerful but politically defined and divided membership, its protection of the individual especially the Caucasian individual, its dangerous protection of rebellion and the right to bear arms to mention a few of its powerful strands.
 
Will these institutions, touted by Wena intellectuals as the strength of successful democracies and whose weakness is the curse of third world insecurity and backwardness? Will and can these institutions, protect minority immigrants, and other losers from the power of an Ugly America under the Trump presidency?

Countries all over the world are partaking gainfully of the process of Asianisation of world economic power and as may be expected ,the “old” dominant economic power, the USA ,feels threatened ,felt and acted threatened even under the benign Obama administration. Will a Trump Presidency lead the USA into what has been described as the Thucydides’ trap, a form of destructive jealousy by a waning power, of losing its dominance and edge to a new force and power? Can President Trump manage this change peacefully making the emergence of Asia a win win situation for the world…America/Old Europe/Asia and underdeveloped Africa?  These are current areas that must give cause for global concern as power changes hands from a civil civilised humanistic President Obama to one elected by deep divisions bordering on hatred.
  
Candidate Hillary Clinton has at last spoken, congratulating the winner and President elect Donald Trump. Central to her statement is a plea for the new President to respect and nurture those high human values that are proudly American and which her campaign offered the American electors.