Trump Is The Greatest! Get Over it!

Obama has left the building. Turns out he didn’t tower above the fray, he wasn’t irresistible, and he wasn’t the most dynamic, radical, transformative politician to ever appear on the American political scene; that honour goes to Donald J. Trump.

Once you take heated emotion, cherished ideologies and meaningless factors like personality and likeability out of the equation how can anyone deny the previous statement? Trump took on the three most powerful bodies within the American democratic system - the Republican Party, The Democratic Party, and the Media - and walloped them all. 

 Between them the modern Republican Party (founded, primarily, in 1854 to oppose slavery - go figure) and The Democratic Party (founded in the 1820s) have controlled the political landscape and institutions of the United States of America , overseen domestic economic policy and spending, controlled the destinies of foreign governments,  overthrown elected rulers,  helped to reshape international boundaries, maintained the dollar as the world’s most influential currency and directly, and indirectly shaped the daily lives of hundreds of millions of human beings who live outside of American boundaries. Having successfully seen off the advent of any serious third party contender, these two political organisations have, until now, remained invincible. Donald Trump took them both on and gave them the hiding of their lives!

Until the rise of Donald Trump no one could possibly conceive of any candidate running for power without the aid, succour and support of the mainstream media. Trump took on the media, and ran right over it.  That’s an unprecedented, unthinkable three-strike! (Trump also beat a popular sitting President who tried everything short of driving Air Force One over Trump’s body.) 

Trump is, by any standards, a political phenomenon without compare. 

Will he turn out to be a good president? Will he even be in office by the end of 2017?  

Who knows? Who cares!

Let The Games Begin!