30 November 2016
Trump's Need to Win
The President-elect's denial of Hillary Clinton's popular electoral majority is another illustration of the Donald's visceral need to score a win in a competition just for the hell of it, without regard to its objective. That will be the principal driver of his coming administration. Once Steve Bannon or another table-setter in his entourage selects an issue for him to focus on, he will fight to impose those views on the nation with the same promotional skill and determination that won him the White House.
That may be the greatest danger of a Trump presidency--not his belief in reactionary values, for he may not have any beliefs other than in his own importance. We are in for leadership by an impressario of convincing salesmanship who can be used by a destructive right wing to reverse some of the progressive accomplishments of the country since the New Deal. Therefore, it is up to the people who have voiced their concerns in futile demonstrations rather to educate and mobilize popular resistance to the backward-looking strategists who have dominated Trump during the campaign and who threaten to continue their influence over him during the next four or more years.
The President-elect's denial of Hillary Clinton's popular electoral majority is another illustration of the Donald's visceral need to score a win in a competition just for the hell of it, without regard to its objective. That will be the principal driver of his coming administration. Once Steve Bannon or another table-setter in his entourage selects an issue for him to focus on, he will fight to impose those views on the nation with the same promotional skill and determination that won him the White House.
That may be the greatest danger of a Trump presidency--not his belief in reactionary values, for he may not have any beliefs other than in his own importance. We are in for leadership by an impressario of convincing salesmanship who can be used by a destructive right wing to reverse some of the progressive accomplishments of the country since the New Deal. Therefore, it is up to the people who have voiced their concerns in futile demonstrations rather to educate and mobilize popular resistance to the backward-looking strategists who have dominated Trump during the campaign and who threaten to continue their influence over him during the next four or more years.
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