American politics - Trump's departure.

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So, Trump is finally no longer the President of the USA - and thank the frack for that! I hope he does get impeached, prosecuted and jailed for the rest of his life - although it might be best for Congress to delay passing this to the Senate for a couple of months (just to give the unrest throughout the US time to settle down a wee bit).
As I’ve written before, I find it disturbing that he won the position back in 2016 - and even more disturbing that he got over 73 million votes back in November 2020. The man is almost unfit to be alive never mind be the President of such an important country.
Having said that, I can understand why he got some support as I agree with some of his aims. I figure the trade deal with China was detrimental to US prosperity - although I suspect that basic capitalism, allied with globalisation, has been the main problem with the US economy rather than any particular trade deal. I’ve also no love for Iran, which I see as pretty evil - but just about everything else he did and said was so unbelievably bad that finding the words to express this becomes difficult. Sadly, however, many of his supporters were/are nothing more than racist, white supremacists and there is no way such views can be tolerated.
But there is hope. Biden has already, within his first couple of days in office, reversed some of the worst Trump policies, like rejoining the Paris Climate Accords, canceling the licences to develop Arctic oil exploration, rejoining the WHO and canceling the travel ban from Muslin countries (which was nothing more than racist).
The question, however, is: Can Joe Biden fix all of the USA’s problems? I very much doubt it. He will not be able to reverse globalisation and changing the minds of Trump’s racists supporters will be an almost impossible task. At the same time, we will no longer have Trump’s lies whipping up the divisions in the US - especially if they throw him in jail.
 

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