Trump's victory is pure protest by the masses. Exciting, but disturbing, as Trump is just another billionaire. He will be sure to look after his own, but then again, maybe he can stare them down. Fortunately, there is the Republican Congress and Senate to provide stability as the upstart get his feet on the ground. The weakened Democrats will have to fight extra hard after years of complacency under the nice, liberal Obama.
For critics of media control by the Israel lobby in the US, and the sham elections where money rules, the victory shattered this paradigm. "Though the 'Masters of Discourse' control the entirety of world media, and they decide what people may think and say from Canada to Hong Kong, only you, American citizens, can defeat them. Trump has a great quality making him fit for the task: he is impervious to labels and libels. He had been called everything in the book: anti-Semite, racist, women hater, you name it. And he still survived that flak. Such people are very rare," writes Israel Shamir.
Almost all presidents since Jimmy Carter have campaigned as outsiders. Reagan, Bill Clinton, Bush jr, Obama. But they were all seasoned politiciansm and all disappointed.
Minnesota Governor Ventura
There is a precedent of a boorish outsider, made famous and pilloried in the media, who catapulted into the political world. His name is Jesse Ventura, a former professional wrestler who served as the 38th Governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003. He was the first member of the Reform Party to win a major government position, now in the Independence Party of Minnesota.
He surprised everyone with a sober, uncorrupt term in office, reforming taxation and constructing the METRO Blue Line light rail in the Minneapolis--Saint Paul. He shattered the Republican-Democratic stranglehold and no one suffered. Trump has shattered it again. He makes a path open to a third party or independent candidate in the future.
Trump's trump card
Trump's final ad, a 2-minute masterpiece of populist rhetoric infuriated the ADL for hinting the obvious: the forces of international finance that have their own agenda for the US, behind our backs, and whose agent is/was Hillary Clinton. He depicted a "global power structure" that is "bleeding America dry" with horrible trade deals that enrich elites and open the gates to mass immigration.
The people behind this globalist takeover include George Soros, Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen and Goldman Sachs Chairman Lloyd Blankfein, with the implication that Clinton is their minion. "The Clinton machine is at the center of this power structure. We've seen this first hand in the WikiLeaks documents, in which Hillary Clinton meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of US sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends and her donors," charged Trump.
That jab alone was worth more than all of Hillary's millions spent on ads attacking him for peccadilloes. Now the intelligent Republicans are waking up. Trumps' words are branded in their minds. That alone makes the election historic.
The ADL's slander of Trump--This ad touches on images and rhetoric that anti-Semites have used for age--merely alerted Americans to the emptiness of the 'antisemitic' slur. If something is true, pointing it out is not bigotry.
Senior House deputy whip Dennis Ross of Florida lauds Trump for his know ability as negotiator. "Sure, he might toss out statements like 'build a wall,' or 'no Muslims,' and say something sensational. But then he knows how to give in a bit and come up with a solution."
House Speaker Paul Ryan publicly disowned Trump during the campaign, and now has to eating crow. The closest modern comparison of an outsider president and a speaker of the same political party may be the fractious relationship during the late 1970s between Democrats President Jimmy Carter and House Speaker Tip O'Neill. Carter's team didn't have an appreciation for how the system worked in Washington and struggled to advance his agenda.
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