I think that idea is based on the belief that a significant amount of "protestors", who wanted change in big government, who either stayed home or switched to Trump [[because they thought ANY kind of change would be better than more of the same), would have voted for Sanders, as he, like Trump, represented change, and his brand of change would have been a lot more attractive to Democrats than Trump's. This also assumes that those "turncoats" that went over to Trump, and those disillusioned voters, who stayed home, would have given the "swing states" of Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio [[and, perhaps, also Missouri), would have given Sanders and The Democrats the victory. I think that might have been possible, as Sanders has a "squeaky clean background", and would have satisfied their need for change more than the unpredictable Trump, who had some ridiculous campaign promises, and behaved like a severely imbalanced egotistical child.
Unfortunately for all those "protestors" who stayed home, or voted for Trump, to get their "change", they are likely to end up sorry that they wanted THAT particular form of change. It remains to be seen. But I am not optimistic about what will happen to funding for public schools and privatisation of public school systems, Social Security, Medicare, medical insurance coverage, minimum wage, replacement of Federal Supreme Court judges, funding for environmental programmes and environmental policy, Abortion and choice, funding for State universities and community colleges, etc. ad infinitum.
All in all, it looks like a disaster to me. I have to hope that The Republicans, as a group, won't cooperate with Trump, and, of course, The Democrats won't, and that Trump's administration can get nothing done, and THAT helps The Democrats, at LEAST, take over The US Senate in 2 years, and they get close to a 50-50 split in The House of Representatives. And, further hope that Sanders will win The Presidency in 4 years, and that he won't be murdered by people who want so much money in their own pockets that the people have to continue to suffer more and more as their real income continues to be lost to inflation, so more and more money can be diverted from them into the pockets of the super rich.
Somewhere along the line, The US general population will stop being satisfied with "toys" [[big, fast cars, electronics and the like) and rise up. I expect a bloody race/class war and revolution. I'm glad I won't be there for that. In the meantime, I have 2 more years of living there part time, and hope that will be the last of it.
I hope my sister and her family will move back to Denmark, sooner, rather than later [[where I stay 2-3 months, anyway, and would then stay there a bit longer).
I don't expect President Trump to build a wall along The Mexican border [[which wouldn't in any case, be paid for by Mexico). I don't expect Trump to spend more than Clinton would have on military actions versus "claimed" terrorists in foreign nations. I DO expect that Trump will spend more on The US Military, as a whole, than Clinton would have. I don't expect Trump to use nuclear weapons against supposed terrorists or so-called "rogue nations".
All in all, all of us around The Globe will keep an interested eye on what Trump's administration does.
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