Election 2016: It's Trump

It's time to Break It Down!

I suppose the good news is “We The People” have spoken, and Donald Trump will accept the results!

I spent yesterday completing a 500-mile round trip to attend the funeral of a relative.  As is typically the case, funerals tend to be sad occasions that also provide an opportunity to catch up with surviving relatives, as well as old friends.  Yesterday it also provided a diversion.  Having voted early, as I have every year since the practice became an option, I was not pressed about abandoning my franchise, so I was able to spend the day in support of family, which should always be a priority.

While it made for a 12-hour day, most of it, nearly nine hours, driving, I still retuned home around the time polls closed in North Carolina, and in a number of other states.  In last week’s post I noted that the race could run late into the night, but that if it did, it would be an indication that a number of things had gone much more poorly than most people (meaning Democrats) anticipated.

Well, at 1:00 a.m. Eastern, not only was the Race still unfolding, there were strong indications Donald Trump might actually win the Presidency.  CNN showed Trump with a 29 point Electoral Map edge, 238-209, while Fox News showed Trump ahead with a 45-point advantage, 254-218.  Remember, 270 Electoral Votes are required to claim the Presidency.

To briefly revisit my early admonition, I believed, based upon his having pulverized 16 Republican opponents, that he could very well indeed best Hillary Clinton.  Mind you, that was not to say he would.  Rather it was to advise all to guard against taking your opponent lightly.  That is precisely what I believe many Democrats did.

While the lead is unquestionably Trump wins, let’s be clear there is more to this than that.  One CNN analyst, Van Jones, called it a whitelash.  I do believe that is a part of it, but not all by any stretch.  Mr. Trump garnered more votes, from Millennials, more votes from Hispanics, and more votes from women than pollsters projected he would.  In his populist verbal meme, he maintained that he would be the human equivalent to BREXIT.  And so he was.

Quickly, let’s consider briefly what’s in store for the soon to be “Great Again America.”  Candidate Trump promised the following:

·      Repeal and Replace Obamacare

·      Restoring a Conservative Supreme Court

·      Building a Wall on the Southern Border

·      Making Mexico Pay for the Wall Along the Southern Border

·      Enacting a Muslim Ban

·      Eliminate Common Core…and Possibly the Department of Education

·      Defund Planned Parenthood

·      Bar Syrian Refugees

·      Make (the Strongest) Military (in the History of the World) Stronger

·      Throw Hillary Clinton in Jail

That’s 10 of dozens of things Mr. Trump promised to do.  I presume they represent, at least in part, a pathway to renewed greatness.    We will see.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the United States, Donald Trump…”Election 2016: It’s Trump!”

I’m done; holla back!