Trump’s rise and America’s descent

Since the news that Trump actually won the US Presidential Election, I half dreamed of a great disaster to have happened – an earthquake or a volcanic eruption. The terror he inspires in even someone outside the US is immense. The red of the republican party feels a lot like a red warning sign this year.

Donald J Trump, the republican candidate for this year’s Presidential Election, and probably the second (or first, depending on whom you’re asking) most powerful man on this planet next to Pope Francis right now, is known for his open verbal attacks against immigrants, the press, gays, women, Hilary Clinton and anyone else who appears to be in his way. His definition of making America great again involves revoking everything that did make it great – diversity and freedom. You’re looking at the candidate who said if any of his violent supporters are arrested, he would pay the legal fees. You’re looking at the candidate who said he would build a wall south of USA to keep immigrants from Mexico out. What are we, in the middle ages now?

Trump’s ascent was a joke at first, until things got serious real fast. This is what happens when you keep a joke going long enough, you have Donald J Trump as the US President. Nevertheless, the results of this Presidential election is not as much a failure of Hilary Clinton as much as America’s. This is not to say that America’s economy will fail, or that America will suffer by becoming a bad place to live in. That may or may not happen, but America has already failed – by letting a man like Donald Trump become the president of the United States, a position they hold to be the protector of the free world.

Whether or not Trump will actually hold up his promises and become Aladeen from The Dictator is yet to be seen, but I’m feeling physically ill at what people are willing to embrace. And to think that they were 0.24% away from not choosing this disaster…