Grant85
Head Pro
I am always surprised by the sheer ignorance of many of Trump’s critics. In 2016, (And earlier on this thread) there was a lot of squealing about Trump getting less votes nationally than Clinton – completely ignoring the fact that the US is a federal republic and the electoral college was specifically designed to stop the larger states riding roughshod over the wishes of the smaller....There is also a lack of understanding about the limited power of the presidency in the US system of government and that Trump is not the emperor of America.
More than this, the United States is a deeply democratic and decentralised country with enormous power in the hands of the states, counties and cities (far more power than, say, the Scottish county council has ?). The whole point of their system is to stop the accumulation of power in the hands of one person. Anyone comparing Trump’s America to Nazi Germany is merely demonstrating their own breathtaking ignorance of the past.
A lot of what Trump has done is straight out of the Hitler playbook, in terms of getting into power legitimately but removing checks and balances once he's there.
Also he has massively lowered the bar on what is acceptable actions for people holding public office. Whether he wins or not in 8 weeks time, the past 4 years have been damaging to politics around the world.
Democracy has, in the main, been constructed in such a way that it prevents extremists or hugely polarising figures from getting into high office. Especially in the US 2 party system where the president has, in the main, to appeal to a large section of moderates who will decide the direction of the presidency. 4 years ago enough of those moderates decided they just couldn't press the button for Hillary Clinton.
Perhaps when all is said and done, Hillary Clinton was the only realistic Democratic candidate that could have lost to Donald Trump - I hope Joe Biden doesn't disprove that theory. 4 years ago we were in a similar position, but perhaps after 4 years of lunacy, the moderates will now realise that they have to turn up this time.