Dinesh Kamath's Editorial 'Confused voters elect Donald Trump as US Prez' that was published in Newsband

Confused voters elect Donald Trump as US Prez

Donald Trump will be the 45th President of the United States. 58 per cent of whites and 21 per cent of non-whites voted for Mr. Trump, whereas 37 per cent of whites and 74 per cent of non-whites voted for his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. It seems white people in the United States voted overwhelmingly for Trump, and the immigrants and people from other ethnic backgrounds didn't turn up in big numbers for Hillary.

American voters should have given a chance to Mrs. Clinton to become the first lady President to rule USA which was not given by American Voters so far for the last two centuries of their democratic rule. As a presidential candidate to gain more votes, Mr. Trump's campaign was filled with objectionable speeches and dialogues, some of which are not dignified. Now, at least, after becoming President of USA, he should control such type of criticism against existing systems and procedures and form friendly relations with all communities of people residing in USA and people of all countries and get their support/ help in building USA to further greater heights.

Trump even with all his flaws have proven to have more common-sense and pulse of the masses than the candidate supported by the establishment. It is still not known as to what he is yet, so we have to wait and watch.

It is not important for any Indian to know who is Mr. Trump and how is his character. The most important thing is what type of relationship he will establish with India. Because today our country needs a biggest supportive country on the way of fight with terrorism. So, the nature of Trump must be liberal for our country.

Hillary lost because of vote bank politics and demonizing of people who don't accept her arguments. An imaginary group called "white men without college degree" was invented and repeatedly demonized by Hillary, her supporters and Conventional media. This group is something like "Upper caste Hindu male" group invented by people from Indian socialist communist ecosystem. Such imaginary groups are labelled as Racist, communal, Misogynist, sexist etc etc etc. Americans should have learnt lessons after Modi, or after Brexit but learning did not happen and Trump happened.

Much of the Indian media were behind Mrs Clinton as there is an oft-repeated thought that the Democrats are good for India. Mr Modi expressed his preference to Mr Trump. The media and their writers projected Mr Trump as a personification of all evils as it had done in the cases of Mr Modi. It is in vain to try to understand the reaction of the public in any situation and more so in the recent American elections. The news through the media was the only source for the public. And the media projections have been proved wrong. The news watcher was almost convinced from the speeches of the contestants that Trump had lost his trump card! And what happened finally? Politicians appear to be the same all over the globe and the public too.

There are several reasons behind Trumps success, primary among those is the alienation of those who had somewhat different opinion than the so called liberals. Defying all predictions, Trump has made it to the White House. This raises questions on predictions itself. Modern public opinion has become more complex than earlier days. Due to corrupted politicians, public remains undecided till the last minute.