November 2016
On November 8th, 2016 the United States experienced one of the most unexpected political election upset in its history, when Donald Trump lost the popular vote but won the Electoral College count, over Hillary Clinton, becoming the 45th president of the United States; leaving many across the world in shock and fear.
On November 8th, 2016 the United States experienced one of the most unexpected political election upset in its history, when Donald Trump lost the popular vote but won the Electoral College count, over Hillary Clinton, becoming the 45th president of the United States; leaving many across the world in shock and fear.
The idea of Donald Trump as the leader of the free world and the world, both pre-election and post-election, has sparked high levels of fear of everything from the possibility of economic destruction of the world economy to nuclear Armageddon. Whether exaggerated or not, these fears are here.
At this point, the entire world is waiting in a state of nervousness to see what his presidency will look like. Who will have jobs and who will not; how many people will be deported like livestock; how many people in the worst and most vulnerable economic situations will end up being the brunt of budget cuts that target the poor and disadvantaged. It’s uncertain and no one knows for sure.
What we do know for sure is that Donald Trump is president of the United States of America (POTUS). Some are praying that he will not execute most of the things he said in his campaigning. They remain hopeful even though they know he has appointed a white supremacy advocate as his White House advisor and they still are holding on to hope although the Klu Klux Klan has a December 3rd rally planned for the celebration of his presidency. And hope still lives despite the fact that Donald Trump owns or has high interest in over 500 companies, is scheduled for court cases involving fraud charges, due for hearing in this very November that he won the presidency, and the list goes on with who the new POTUS is.
So the question was: what will the New America look like for marginalized communities? We are hopeful too…that one day we will look back on this article and be so incredibly wrong on what we are about to say; but based on our expertise in government, non-government operations, business, social sciences, and what can be considered recent past experiences (gas price spikes and crashed housing market) with traditional Republican economic policy outcomes, unless something never before witnessed is about to happen in Donald Trump’s presidency; marginalized communities, including those who voted for Donald Trump expecting milk and honey, borrowing from his campaign presidential verbiage – marginalized communities are fucked.
“You can tell them to go fuck themselves,” POTUS Donald Trump (2016).
