TWO THINGS WE CAN LEARN FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP’S “LOSS”

 

The USA election has come to a pulsating end with former Vice President Joe Biden winning enough electoral votes to become the 46^th President while President Donald Trump is still crying foul over “massive irregularities” in the polls with regards to mail-in ballots. If he will concede after exhausting all of his options is a matter of conjecture, but there are lessons we can take from his four-year run as USA President.

Its’ better to stand alone

President Trump was virtually alone ever since he announced his run for office five years ago while coming down his gold-laced escalator in Trump Tower, New York. His close friends and buddies shunned him and the Republican Party establishment never really warmed up to him as well as the media. Did he whimper and fade away? Hell No! President Trump fought on and managed not just to shock the Republican Establishment, but also shock the political and media establishment by winning the 2016 polls against all odds. Even as President, he still faced opposition from the Democrats, jealous Republicans, and media who hated his every move and smeared him with dirt (fake) like the Russia-gate, Ukraine-Burisma, Charlottesville, George Floyd et.al. If you watch CNN, MSNBC, NBC, and now Fox, you will get the gist of my argument. He still fought for the American people. If there was any person who was despised and blamed for nothing, that man is President Trump. The key lesson here is that you will be abandoned if you fight for your beliefs and you have to get used to that.

Karma is real

Al Gore’s loss to Bush in the 2000 election due electoral malpractice has come back to haunt the Republicans in a massive scale. The 600 mail-in ballots in Florida helped turn the tide against Gore in Florida just like the thousands of mail-in ballots helped win Biden states like Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Michigan. Although analysts contend that Bush won in 2000 because he flipped West Virginia. But the actions Bush and the Republicans took in 2000 to stop the statewide recount in Florida, even going as far as the Supreme Court which reversed Florida Supreme Court’s decision in a 5-4 vote stands out.

Even if President Trump manages to secure a recount in the aforementioned states, it is unlikely that he would win enough votes (electoral) to retain the presidency. The mail-in ballots may have played a role in his loss and conspiracy theorists will have a field day theorizing how the democrat establishment in those states managed to “rig” the vote through mail-in ballots with help from China (creating Covid-19 virus to justify lockdowns that made it necessary to use mail-in voting). The ghosts of 2000 returned to haunt the Republicans, who failed to use this system because they preferred voting on election day rather than use mail-in ballots like Democrats.