Readers attempt to process Donald Trump’s presidential victory with a mixture of shock, blame, and even a little excitement.
Donald Trump’s return to the US presidency is, arguably, less compelling than the Democrat Party’s implosion. Detached from its traditional ties to its blue collar heartland, as personified for decades by the admirable Joe Biden from Scranton, Pennsylvania, the party has never recovered from Hillary Clinton’s 2016 pejorative characterisation of Trump supporters living in the ″Rust Bucket″ states as being ″a basket of deplorables″.
Should a Trump “clear the swamp” approach enter our politics, it would result in a landslide win. We are sick of being governed by the nameless bureaucrats – the establishment if you like – and we are sick of their political correctness. We are sick of their so called “consulting”, whilst telling the majority of us what we can say, think, behave or consume while portraying those who disagree as “dumb rednecks”. We are sick of the arrogance of the mainstream media.
This, for me, is America’s fundamental problem. It offers a lesson for Australia. While it is healthy to encourage competition, the real wealth of our country stems from a belief that it is OK for governments to build social and economic ladders that overcome the competitive differences across the weak and powerful groups of society.
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