Article about Trump and the enormity of a Trump victory. Stresses that the entire world political order will change. It is a pessimistic look at Trump by someone who may also have seen Brexit as pessimistic.
"President Trump is a monster waiting behind a locked door. What happens if America opens it?
I have just returned from a week on the US east coast spent among friends, all of whom would probably be placed in the “liberal elite” voter category. Mr Trump was such a compelling topic that he had to be banned from the conversation at times to avoid souring the mood. When he is discussed, it’s with incredulity and disbelief. “You know what the worst aspect of a Trump presidency would be?” said one friend. “Global warming.”
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But unlike Brexit, the election of Mr Trump could be a disaster on a scale we have not experienced in the West for a very long time.
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Whatever your view about the referendum, in Britain, we’ve woken up. We’ve realised it’s possible for all our received wisdoms to be wrong and for the inconceivable to happen. All of the old “common sense” rules – that British voters are cautious, that fear is more effective than hope, that we don’t want big, untested ideas but boring competence – have proven to be useless.
Remainers are still in a kind of post-traumatic shock, throwing up their hands at the world. For Leavers, many of whom thought their own political victory so impossible that they took their own pens to polling stations to ensure their votes weren’t erased, Brexit is a ray of light. It’s the shocking, wonderful proof, after years of being ignored, that the system might be theirs too.
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But it feels to this post-Brexit Brit like we’ve turned a page in the world history textbook. In my version, the new chapter is probably called something like “Globalisation: the Western Backlash”. In updated versions, maybe it will have a different name.
Whatever it’s called, one of its themes is that traditional political techniques and wisdoms have lost their potency and that the elites of every country were too slow to realise. Keys are rattling in the locks of doors we thought had been sealed shut. Be in no doubt, the West’s established democratic and economic systems are in the balance"
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/06/president-trump-is-a-monster-waiting-behind-a-locked-door-what-h/
If Trump wins, the elite's entire game will be up, it will be the end of all their dreams, schemes and lies. That is why they desperately want him to lose and are using the usual media tricks to try and stop him.