Donald John Trump brings the US to inflection point

The president elect is being looked upon with more apprehensions than appreciation.

- VBN Ram

Has Donald Trump brought anti-establishment voices to ruffle many feathers? It appears he has – judging from the jitters and numerous protests following his victory. The US has, therefore, been brought to an inflection point. The same type as has been seen through the Brexit in the UK 

The bitterly fought contest which will install Donald Trump as the 45th US president in January 2017 was epoch making since no other presidential election, thus far, has been so viciously fought; led world currencies and stock markets to plunge abysmally and caused massive geostrategic convulsions in many countries. The president elect won 290 and Hillary Clinton 218 of the Electoral College votes.

However, Clinton won the popular vote, therefore, had the US Constitution provided for the high office based on popular vote Hillary would have once again entered the White House occupying the highest office in the world, and not merely as a first lady as she had been.

This writer is convinced that if Clinton was bereft of the adverse baggage i.e. the controversies which entrapped her, most notably the collateral damage from her association with the Clinton Foundation, the official-personal email mix up – further exacerbated by the FBI director James Comey calling for an investigation and then just 10 days later exonerating her – suggesting that all of 650,000 emails had been examined and none of them was adverse to her, have made Clinton’s critics claim that even if the FBI was working 24x7 for those 10 days it would have amounted to their devoting a mere one second per email, which is totally absurd. Perhaps Bernie Sanders who was pitted against Hillary within the Democrat contest would have found greater sympathy among the voters.

It is because of such blemishes that Trump was able to refer to his opponent as “crooked Hillary and get away with it. Though, he himself was portrayed to be a tax evader.