And now what?

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“We have witnessed something epochal and grave. It is the beginning of a new era whose shape and form are not clear, whose personnel and exact direction are unknown. But something huge and incalculable has occurred. God bless our beloved country... The people did this. As individuals within a movement.”

Peggy Noonan

“One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace. Good people don’t go into government.”

Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States

“We must preserve the right of free speech and the right of free assembly. But the right of free speech does not carry with it, as has been said, the right to holler fire in a crowded theater. We must preserve the right to free assembly, but free assembly does not carry with it the right to block public thoroughfares to traffic. We do have a right to protest, and a right to march under conditions that do not infringe the constitutional rights of our neighbors.”

Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States

Massive hysteria, fear, and loathing have overtaken the liberal camp after the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States. Trump’s unprecedented victory stunned the establishment, dealt a crippling blow uponmainstream media operating as mouthpieces promoting subversive misinformation, and upended a complex system of Democratic “bosom buddy” politics pivoting on the Clintons and their personal infrastructure projects, the infamous Clinton Foundation being the most prominent among them.

Nobody saw it coming. Liberal warriors of the Faith kept pushing America toward choices which are often counterintuitive not to mention deeply offensive to large majorities. These self-appointed teachers of the Nation refused to hear the rumbles echoing throughout the land because of the discontent and rage of millions whom Mrs. Clinton derisively called “deplorables.”

The Democratic Party is now being torn by a ferocious civil war. The crushing defeat will now inevitably lead to bloodletting and the demolition of old sacrosanct idols which buttressed the Clinton wing and its smug version of “liberalism.”

An unprecedented realignment in American politics has occurred. The Working Class, once the (albeit diminishing) bastion of the Democrats, has moved, in one short breath, behind Donald Trump en masse who, in turn, has re-defined the Republican Party overnight as the party of the grassroots instead of the high halls of dominant and disingenuous corporate minorities.

Such is the power of this new “Trump Era” message that the Republicans have also won both the Senate and the House of Representatives despite the fierce and dishonest war many of them waged against Trump, the party nominee, during the election campaign. This is an earthquake that will reshape American society well into the future. And the change has just begun. President elect Trump, with Congress in Republican hands, arrives in Washington to establish total control on what comes next.

The inevitable question now is what indeed comesnext?

Little is known of the intentions of the new president. His tireless pre-election campaigning revealed a man of unusual energy and persistence. His language-- “bar room” earthly, often vulgar, unvarnished, aggressive, insulting, politically in-correct -- demolished the wall of political verbal “propriety” so dear to the American liberal establishment. In doing so, it mobilized untold numbers of people who came to love him as the person verbalizing their own inner thoughts without fear, without hang-ups, and without mercy. Trump’s blazing message “Make America Great Again” suppressed with ease the opposition’s stale, unimaginative slogans.
Trump, downcast Democrats now admit, having been a successful television personality, bulldozed across the public forum in a manner an often ill and exhausted Mrs. Clinton could not even imagine in her wildest dreams.

Nobody saw it coming. And now, the “Trumpland” future lies ahead. The economy is on everybody’s mind. The Trump offensive was powered by the President elect’s call to arms over “globalization” and the oppressive push by large corporations to transfer all but the kitchen sink to slave labor Third World countries in pursuit of even fatter “global” profits.

This deliberate bleeding of the American domestic sector has wreaked havoc upon once prosperous communities across the country and destroyed the lives of millions. When it comes to the pocket, American male workers today collect pay that is lower, in real terms, than wages in the 1970s. Trump promises to reverse corporate flight and punish those who practice it. “Jobs for Americans first,” was one of his persistent mottos during the campaign.

Trump also promises to re-negotiate NAFTA, a creature of the Clinton administrations, which millions blame, not without cause, for massive loss of American jobs to Mexico. His message resounded across once thriving heartland industrial belts which now lie in ruins.

Trump has also taken issue with the TTP, which he finds inimical to the American worker. In a show of early Trump clout, the TTP, which has taken seven years to negotiate, was abandoned only hours after the meeting of the incoming President with outgoing President Obama at the White House causing low tone consternationamong American “globalists.”

Trump got a tremendous boost by promising to correct the broken immigration system. Wading deep into treacherous waters no other candidate would dare to, he blasted illegal immigration enablers, now feverishly laboring to increase Moslem refugee intake, and illegal immigrants who, despite their undocumented status, demand rights and privileges.

Trump’s election has spread panic among these groups causing calls for open defiance of the laws of the land and, even, violent opposition to their implementation. That mainstream Republicans have been hand-in-hand with Democrats in stroking illegal immigrants outraged millions of rural “deplorables,” who know well the importance Democrats assign to minority votes which, many believe, include ballots cast illegally by undocumented aliens.

While it is too early to say, Trump appears determined to demand strict implementation of immigration law and deportations foremost of those already ordered to leave but still lingering inside the country because of “humanitarian considerations” (which are present even where the individual is a violent felon).

“Inclusion” and “diversity” will be two subjects of key significance in Trump’s social agenda.
“Progressives” are waging an unprecedented war of hysteria against the new president with open calls for rebellion--which various groups in “progressive-land” are heeding by smashing storefronts, burning cars, and beating up Trump supporters.

“Progressivism” has fought tooth and claw in recent years to criminalize anything that bothers “minorities.” Any “suspect” statement is automatically labeled an affront and an unacceptable threat to the integrity and survival of the officially recognized “victims.”

Any attempt to oppose, or criticize these irrational and offensive ideas draws the immediate condemnation of the perceived miscreant who does not realize he suffers an unacknowledged illness called “prejudice.”
Trump’s language during the campaign about illegal immigration, which is intrinsically linked to “oppressed minorities,” has resurrecteda nightmare “progressives” thought they had defeated for good: a pushback from the millions who are offended by the totalitarian didactic manner of the self-appointed social “therapists” and their demand for personal behavior policing via “hate crime” legislation and a mind-boggling number of ordinances. These “steps in the right direction” limit and, often, snuff out free speech expression which the “therapists” deem offensive to “threatened minorities” (including potential resident Moslem radicals, a category the losing side of this election has refused to recognize as a clear threat).

In foreign affairs, the Trump future is a question mark. Many express fear he will be unpredictable to the point of damaging long established Western policies. Others raise fears that the new president cannot be trusted with the nuclear codes. Trump’s expressed ambivalence toward NATO, and his comments on burden sharing with allies, has added to the insecurities of “traditionalists.” The Democrats have particularly attacked his lack of enthusiasm in bashing Russia -- and tried (unsuccessfully) to show Trump’s “collusion” with the Russian Bear to interfere in the election. Warm congratulatory words from Mr. Putin have added to traditionalist ire.

Since the Trump transition team is still in its infancy, little can be said about policies that might be on the table. On a personal level, the new president has no experience dealing with foreign governments, let alone the intricacies of crisis management, coalition building, and the wildly shifting sands in dangerous crises such as Syria, the Arab - Israeli conflict, and the spreading pestilence of Islamic terrorism. Much will depend on able advisers and “on -the- ground” action assistants with experience in political and military affairs.

Finally, there is concern about the new president’s temperament. Mr. Trump the Businessman, his critics insist, has delivered enough proof of his quick temper and his obvious disdain of appearing to retreat in the face of criticism.
How can a person, who demands having his way come hell or high water, can handle the enormous demands of the presidency which pivot around patience, compromise, consensus, and across -the- aisle initiative, the critics ask?
Supporters dismiss much of this talk as irrelevant citing, among others, Ronald Reagan, who was criticized and ridiculed by his opponents for his often oblivious manner but who is recognized today (at least by conservatives) as the postwar US president who reshaped the world (along with Margaret Thatcher).

Above all, the Trump victory has spread pure terror among “globalist” liberals both here in America and in Europe, where the European “dis-Union” struggles, apparently in vain, to regain control.

“Trumpland” could be the decisive bastion conservative movements in Europe fantasized about but would not dare think as a viable possibility. The politics of “tolerance,” open borders, disdain and ridicule of Christianity, anti-patriotism, anti-nationalism, anti-clericalism, corporate dictatorship, and individual “human rights” as a weapon of totalitarian war upon values that helped shape Western history for thousands of years stand to come under pressure so overwhelming that liberals feel their most horrific hallucinations are coming true.

If nothing else, “Trumpism” has devastated the bubble of liberal internationalism --which now needs to redefine its approach to the real world of the “insignificants” and the “deplorables” across the Western world or wither and perish on the vine.

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