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O<\/span>n Tuesday November 8th, the unthinkable happened. \u00a0Despite languishing in the polls, receiving only a handful of endorsements and setting his own party into a state of near civil war, Donald Trump emerged victorious as the 45th President of the United States. \u00a0In an incredible twist to the history of American presidents, the first African-American president Barack Obama will be replaced by a man endorsed by the KKK.<\/p>\n

What happens from here? \u00a0No one knows. \u00a0The result is unprecedented and veers the country into uncharted territory. \u00a0As has been written about exhaustively during the election campaign, Trump is a terrifying proposition. \u00a0With no political or military background, he will be the least experienced man to hold office in the country’s history. \u00a0His blatant disregard for telling the truth, his litany of characters flaws and his divisive campaign rhetoric is a terrifying prospect for the half of the country that did not vote for him. \u00a0He has exhibited traits of a demagogue, directly alluding to actions that would steer the country towards fascism. \u00a0He has promised to turn the inner cities of Chicago into a ‘law and order’ police state. \u00a0He has threatened to lock up his political opponents and journalists who don’t write favourable stories about him. \u00a0In a bold indifference to political history, it has been mooted that he may continue to hold rallies around the country for the duration of his presidency.<\/p>\n

As for who pulls the strings, we know he has strong ties to Russia and is financially indebted to\u00a0overseas banks<\/a><\/strong> after all major American banks stopped lending him money. \u00a0It is an incredible and unprecedented conflict of interest.<\/p>\n

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Will he follow through on the batshit crazy laundry list of election campaigns he ran on? \u00a0He promised to build a border wall and make Mexico pay for it. \u00a0He promised a ban on Muslim immigration. \u00a0He said he would formulate a plan to stop ISIS in thirty days.<\/p>\n

Judging by comparable actions of populist leaders around the world, probably not. \u00a0When Britain voted for Brexit, the “\u00a3350 million per week for the NHS” didn’t magically materialise. \u00a0These are just ridiculous pipe dreams promised to the people to get elected.<\/p>\n

But the election was a crushing defeat for Democrats, not just with the presidency but also with the senate. \u00a0And with a vacancy in the Supreme Court, the Republicans are poised to hold as much power in January 2017 as they have ever had since 1928. \u00a0And although Trump ran a crazy, dangerous, manipulative and horrific campaign that played to people’s fears, it is those around him that will likely do the worst damage. \u00a0His proposed cabinet which includes the likes of Rudy Giuliani, Ben Carson, Newt Gingrich and John Bolton reads like a political Legion of Doom.<\/p>\n

They will likely come after and successfully dismantle Obama’s Affordable Care Act. \u00a0They will successfully defund Planned Parenthood. \u00a0They may even overturn Roe vs Wade in the Supreme Court and make abortion illegal. \u00a0Abolishing marriage equality is not out of the question either. \u00a0Not only is Trump’s presidency a catastrophe for civil rights, the entire cabinet is a collection of paid-for climate change deniers and that is probably the biggest disaster to come out of this result. \u00a0Trump’s advocacy of coal energy and his plan to completely dismantle any climate change agreements forged under Barack Obama is likely to have a devastating domino effect on the rest of the world. \u00a0Without America on board, what hope is there that India and China and Russia will seriously attempt to tackle climate change? \u00a0No action on climate changes means rising tides, which means millions of people displaced, which means an out of control refugee crisis and we know exactly what far right nationalists think of refugees. \u00a0It makes one’s heart ache and despair just thinking about it.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Bridie Jabour (@bkjabour) November 9, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n