How Much Damage Can Trump Really Do in Four Years?

Since that year has passed. More than a worthwhile readable Medium article can truly tell in detail. From a party standpoint it was like watching a drier version of a high school show where Donald is the bad boy pissing everyone off causing eye rolls yet he still gets the girl aka Chad from the Bachelorette. The entire GOP had posted this guy as a joke and I can see why. Two months after starting his campaign he was fired by NBC for immigration comments that ended up canning him off his own show. The Terminator oddly enough will be taking it over.

“Fired for immigration comments, you say, surely this was the big end for Trump”. Any sane person was saying that but by the end of the year the snowball effect of catching more grief with the public not only did not knock him down but seemed to create a layer of protective coating that certain members of the GOP couldn’t penetrate.

Rubio, Christie, Ben Carson, and Ted Cruz were on a constant witch hunt to burn Trump at the stake which two of them in the end have endorsed him for presidency after sound defeats. What makes the election unique among so many of them has been the fact that Donald is playing his own game and not breaking it. The usual political smiles curtly, says sweet nothing’s into a microphone and promises for a better tomorrow for your children. Trump though, goes a different route. He doesn’t whisper sweet nothing’s, he doesnt even whisper. Either by stage, by phone or by spokesperson, Donald is constantly regurgitating strange something’s that you might hear your local waffle house talk about in the morning:

• “We need a wall and I will make Mexico pay for it”
• The ambiguous: “He said I said those things but I never did” which is followed by a fact check showing he’s wrong
• “Banning Muslims” which like the statement above he says he never committed to the thought but that it’s just something he’s thinking about.
• Boasting about being on front page of papers for being involved in 488 lawsuits and winning 450 of them.
• Justifying why Ariana Huffington’s wife left her for being unattractive inside and out
• “Women who seek abortions should be punished”…which changed later changed to doctors after backlash

Normal stuff right?

All of these items and more do not fit the GOP’s leaders beliefs…

…but it does fit their voters beliefs.

Before you may get offended, I am not stating that EVERY Republican voter believes these things but when the process is left to private voting, you would be shocked by how many do. I personally witnessed a thousand people in Murrieta, CA block busses carrying detained illegals from entering their town to temporarily put said illegals in detention centers. It takes some serious motivation to actually push one (let alone 1,000) to actually do that.

Regardless of how you feel about that act of what the Murrieta folks did, what is truly apparent is that the people of America have truly become vocal in a new way. For instance, people in the 60-70's were physically vocal protesting love, peace, and no more wars. The trend continued til the internet took off and transformer to fearless speech from the good, the bad, and trolls alike. Social Media helped propel Barak Obama in 2008 when he caught on to the younger generation. Now in 2016, being either physically present or digitally present have merged to where people no longer put up filters in ether areas. This new movement will surprisingly have less voters showing up but have created the most heated debates we arguably had for candidates. For the first time it feels like the actual people in the country are in control especially since leaders to the left are pleading for votes against Trump.

Let’s have a little hypothetical then:

How much damage can Donald Trump actually do in four years?

There is no easy answer for this question. Most decisions that are made, written up, and passed are done with Congresses help. During the first two years of Presidency, Barak Obama delivered a stimulus package, bailed out two automakers, started his healthcare and reformed financial regulations. All of that was done with a democratic dominant Congress. Can you imagine the Donald with a full Republican Congress now?

There are two scenarios that I can see truly playing out at this time:

1. The worst fears of many Americans are met. The Donald assumes office and with the help of a dominant Republican Congress (barring no changes this upcoming election for Congress) he holds true to his unseeingly long list of promises by repealing the Affordable Health Care Act, blocking refugees, outlawing abortion, etc., basically undoing eight years of sleepless nights. What would make this situation worse is if the real Donald is not has self confident behind closed doors as he is the podium and can be easily manipulated to do whatever he’s told.
2. In a perfect world, Donald Trump would not be nominated or even considered for the role of Leader of the Free World (Although he would charge a premium for the world) but since we are here in the now; the best scenario would be split Congress or even a democratic group that would be able to keep most things at a standstill for four years.

Obviously, this is an opinionated piece that will rub some people the wrong way and that is not the intention. All that I have said can be taken as a Go Vote For Hillary agenda but in all honesty my concern is not between these two candidates but the other 329,999,998 other potential candidates that did not make it this far. We have so many brilliant minds that can do more good than potentially either of these candidates. But here we are. We are down to a seasoned politician and an unsavory businessmen with true potential to do more harm than good.

So “How Much Damage Can Trump Really Do in Four Years?”.

It’s up to the voters to decide. For now.

“It’s going to be yuuuuuuge!”