“Trump Speaks to Supporters After Historic Return to White House”
Donald Trump has in fact returned to the White House as the 47th president of the United States. The Republican candidate won that race, the Associated Press called it early Wednesday, and congratulations began flowing in from around the world as anxieties grew over his presidency.
Analyses show Trump narrowly beating Vice President Kamala Harris but coming through key battleground states at a wider-than-expected margin. His wins in Wisconsin, combined with previously wins in Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, put him over the top in the race to 270 Electoral College votes totaling 277 for him, to 224 for Harris. But with polls suggesting a closer race, Trump’s resurgent support was driven by general unhappiness, with Americans over the current political and economic situation.
Trump then proclaimed that he had “an unprecedented and powerful mandate” in his victory speech. And Political analyst Professor Scott Lucas from the University of Dublin, says much of Trump’s success has been based since his earliest days on tapping into “well-oiled resentments among elements of the American public.” And Lucas says that longstanding grievances — the fallout from 9/11, the ozone hole, the 2008 recession and the opioid epidemic — have intensified polarization, and which Trump has exploited, attacking opponents and minority groups.
The economy, specifically inflation under President Joe Biden, was a major theme of Trump’s campaign, along with opposing U.S. support for Ukraine against Russia. Liberal and Muslim voters have also been rattled by the administration’s position on Israel’s behavior in Gaza and Lebanon.
Trump’s foreign policy pledges will be under the microscope He says he could easily finish the war in Ukraine, prompting anxiety in Kyiv about being forced to agree to hand over land to Russia, and with NATO partners voicing fears he might dilute defense guarantees. Trump, an outspoken ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has also promised that he could have the Hamas conflict in Gaza settled “in hours.” Others such as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, spoke highly of Trump winning in hopes of a commitment of continuing U.S. and Israeli bonds.
China bracing for tougher ties with US, thinks Trump to revive his protectionist trading agenda is a human-readable sentence. On domestic policy, Trump has promised an America First Agenda that threatens much of the U.S. government — a mass deportation campaign, a DOJ concentration on retaliating against political enemies and so on.
The Trump Administration has been claimed by Lucas to be entering the U.S. into a “much more dangerous era,” where there is “less reflection of a national policy” and more “based on personal imperatives”
