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Despite seeing himself as pulling off the biggest political comeback in the history of the world, he shows that he's no historian.
And we'll find out over the next four years whether he's the peacemaker he claims to be after he calls his buddies Vladimir and Benjamin and tell them to stop fighting their wars.
My absolute favourite one was from my husband, who said that Trump would take us to the brink of war. Hello - the world is already at war, we don't need to be taken to the brink, we're already there.
Whatever - we know enough now from the votes that have
been counted to surmise that the final vote will look like a landslide with
Trump doing what no Republican candidate has done for decades - win the popular
vote by a sizeable margin.
We can read a number of things from this incredible victory.
I expected the USA to sink immediately beneath a tsunami of
blood. I’m not exactly sure why, just that it seemed that the democratic
process had slumped to the level of a TV game show. Of course, that that was
before Ardern was elected.
I say I was shocked, but I was not surprised. It was obvious to anyone who listened to anything out of the States beside Oscar acceptance speeches, that John and Jane Doe wanted something done about the creep of the rust belt, the war on traditional values and the deluge of illegal migrants through its porous border.
