I, for one, am impressed with Donald Trump, for his brashness, pedestrian views, doubling down on his mistakes, and remarkable ignorance. As he remains unchallenged, the inability to pin him down for details is not due to an institutional stasis; instead as per the Beltway pundits, it is a task, which the media is unprepared to handle. It seems the country (parts of it anyway) is poised for Trump; Republican base, especially in the South, has almost been singing the refrain for many years. The successful tale (evidence-less opinions and imaginary incitements) that started in the Fox News twenty years ago, has taken its roots in the media in general.
Reflecting on the changes, in the country and across globally, that might be shaped by Trump as our next US President, the following list (baker's dozen), a partial at best, is offered. It is based on what he has already said. I reckon we would encounter a more dynamic regime, anxious to undo the transformations during the Obama years, driven by the lack of rationality, manipulated by the Alt-Right, and articulated by Trump with his whimsical seat-of-the-pant exhortations. All such changes will be hurriedly rubber-stamped by the Republican cognoscenti in the Senate and the Congress amidst continued media inertia.
President George W. Bush, methodically, proved how to prevaricate and convince the country to support the Iraq war. Since Trump is incapable of differentiating between facts and untruths, he might just press-roll almost everything using the Bush technique. The campaigns could be so pervasive that it might hark back to the days of Third Reich (Alt-Right remains enthralled by the idea of ethnic cleansing pogroms against the minorities, especially the African-Americans, in the USA.)
The list doesn’t include tax, general policy issues, etc. by choice because Trump has volunteered little.
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