Trump’s coming will deal a body blow to the wokeness and racial divide which the Left has created in the West, especially in America. Exactly opposite to the propaganda against him, Trump has been the unifier-in-chief this election, galvanising a large number of Black, Latino, Asian, Indian, and even Muslim voters behind him. – Abhijit Majumder
Beneath his exterior of impulsive brusqueness, Donald Trump is a profoundly practical man. He is trained to do business and make deals at the highest level. Coming out of his father’s shadow in his mid-twenties, his circumstances made him his own man, intrinsically resistant to being a puppet of a greater power or system. These ought to be entry qualities of the President of the United States—still the most powerful political office on this planet—at this crucial moment.
There are at least seven major reasons why a Trump victory over Kamala Harris is desirable for the US and the world, and from a strictly local angle, for India as well.
First, a Trump and Republican win will very likely end the wars which broke out under Democrats Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Wars between Russia and Ukraine and Israel and Iran-backed Hamas and Hezbollah have claimed an estimated one million and 50,000-60,000 lives respectively. Terribly bloody wars raged on in Africa between Rwanda and Congo and in Sudan.
Under Biden-Harris, the US military made its most humiliating retreats in Afghanistan and Nigeria, scarring public perception of American might forever.
Second, a Trump presidency is likely to soften the growing abrasiveness between NATO and BRICS, pushing the world to another bipolar Cold War from a messy but promising multipolarity.
Forced by America’s gratuitous and mindless sanctions, Russia and China have hastened the creation of a BRICS currency. Economically powerful nations like India and Saudi have started trading in mutually agreeable currencies. All this is likely to deal a serious blow to the status of the US dollar and the petrodollar, the chief currencies of American dominance.
Third, Trump’s ascension will weaken the US deep state, a swamp of shadowy and extremely powerful networks which profit through leeching on weak governments worldwide.
The deep state may not be monolithic, but its outlook is globalist and its agenda is to weaken governments in both America and overseas, carry out mostly destructive regime-change ops worldwide to topple strong local leaders and install its puppets (the latest being Bangladesh), and run the world from behind the curtains as a parasitic super-regime.
In India, the deep state has been extremely active and desperate to overthrow the stable and popular Narendra Modi government for the last 10 years. It has funded violent agitations, fanned separatism, used countries in the Anglo-sphere and Europe to host anti-India terrorists, brought the most divisive political ideas through main figures in the Opposition, and maligned India with trumped-up charges like religious persecution and state-ordered assassinations abroad. And still, it has miserably failed. It has only pushed India more towards Russia, and quite surprisingly, brought it closer to even China, with which it had longstanding border disputes.
A Trump presidency may lessen the relentless targeting by the deep state and make India-US relations a lot more stable, strategically strong, and productive.
Third, the closure of wars will mean better crude prices and cooling of inflation not just in the US, but worldwide.
Fourth, Biden and Harris have presided over economic wreckage. Their presidency has added $2 trillion in debt every year. The US’s debt now stands at $35.8 trillion, or a $103,700 burden on each American’s shoulder. Under the current regime, inflation has gone up 20-40 per cent according to various estimates, and wars have cost the US nearly $400 billion.
Fifth, the most seismic and course-altering pact, the Abraham Accord, which was signed between the UAE and Israel, will most certainly expand under Trump to bring in Saudi and other Arab nations. That can pave the path to lasting peace in the Middle East.
Sixth, Trump’s coming [will] deal a body blow to the wokeness and racial divide which the Left has created in the West, especially in America. Exactly opposite to the propaganda against him, Trump has been the unifier-in-chief this election, galvanising a large number of Black, Latino, Asian, Indian, and even Muslim voters behind him.
The Wokes have unleashed a cancel culture which many traditional Democratic voters oppose. Trump is also likely to stop the gender surgeries on minors which disturbs and angers many Dem parents as well.
And seventh, a powerful and democratic US is still better than an all-influential and autocratic China as the world’s leadership model. – News18, 4 November 2024
› Abhijit Majumder is a senior journalist and editor-in-chief at Earshot Media, New Delhi.
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