And breath….. Suitably terrified yet? Yeah, me too. Even from afar I can tell that this isn’t good news. Domestically and internationally recognised as one of the greatest threats to civilised society as well as human decency has succeeded where most people presumed he wouldn’t. Yet despite the rhetoric, the bigoted campaign fuelled by this duplicitous proclamations, this charlatan has been controversially elected – by actual human beings – as the next President of The “Partially” United States! The silent majority have spoken. This “man” is in a position of power. He could legislate that all women of a specified age and measurements must wear bikinis regardless of the weather. He could authorise a nuclear strike on a cafeteria if he wanted! Well probably not, but I wouldn’t trust him to organise the contents of an empty bag let alone form policies or govern an entire country. Sure Hillary Clinton would’ve been a vapid, totally ineffectual leader and as effective as a condom machine in the Vatican, but I would take ineffective over potential warmonger. Washington. Lincoln. Trump. One of these things is not like the other? Perhaps it’s a little premature to chastised the “policies” of a man who considers women as merely baby receptacles and anyone of colour potential terrorists. The kind of person who probably believes that Germany didn’t give the Berlin Wall a fair shot. Someone who has vindicated the construction of a literal wall as an effective deterrent to immigration and domestic terrorism. All the division, the controversy and spiteful segregation orchestrated that Trumps campaign now has to try and unify the people who he himself has directly marginalised. This is one of the most historic events in recent history, but one marred by uncertainty. The question that I want an answer too is; just who did vote for him?

All the coverage pertaining to Trumps shock presidential candidacy seems to indicate that this is the worst possible result. But he won? Quite a number of people must have voted for him? So where are they? Are they ashamed? Fearful of the resounding perception that Trump supporters are racist or sexist? Perhaps the disdain that people have for Trump didn’t quite outweigh the lingering suspicions concerning Hillary’s dwindling integrity, and instead felt encouraged to vote for a third party rather than support her? I don’t know, I’m just trying to get my head around the whole thing. I think what worries me the most is that in the UK political analyst and strategic predicted that during the EU referendum we would continue to remain part of EU. We didn’t. Similar predictions were made about the successor to the oval office, citing Clinton as the obvious candidate to win. She didn’t. People will mock the US voting system as farcical, a result exclusive to the the backward thinking rhetoric of Republican voters. A testament to the old adage that it could only happen in America. But I’m not deluded enough to believe for one second that if someone with similar ideologies, in this current economic climate wanted to become Prime Minster, that a great number of silent voters would elect him (and it would be a “him” – A Caucasian one at that! And that worries me a lot.
I’m just a foreigner observing events that don’t directly concern me and from an American standpoint my opinions on this matter are mute. But as polarising as his victory appears, it’s a dauntingly contrasting dilemma we in the UK are already experiencing. Or potentially more concerning, views secretly shared by more people than we’d expected, that have now found an appropriate martyr to vocalise their long standing complaints. I’m probably wrong – I usually am – and for once really do hope that I am, for all of our sake’s!