Since Donald Trump’s election, his twitter account has been
swamped by death threats (which the posters will soon regret, since death
threats to a president-elect are investigated by the FBI and Secret Service,
who take them seriously), there have been riots in several cities, and several
videos of Hillary supporters beating up Trump voters have gone viral. All of which shows that there are a healthy
number of “deplorables” among the liberals as well, so the liberals ought not
to be so smug.
And the Clinton team and its press surrogates own
responsibility for some of this, because they were the ones who demonized Trump
so much, and did so much fear-mongering about what his presidency might be
like.
In fact
a) Trump
is clearly smart, smarter apparently than the whole Washington establishment,
Republican and Democrat alike, whom he soundly outsmarted in both the primaries
and the general election, even though they did their level best to kill his
campaign.
b) In
retrospect it is pretty hard to say he is anti-woman, as Hillary kept claiming,
since his main campaign manager, whom he picked to manage the brilliant final
phase of the campaign, is Kellyanne Conway, a woman. Not really
surprising, since he has a number of bright, competent women among the top
executives of his various businesses. My impression is that he is
gender-neutral, picking the most competent irrespective of gender.
c) He
appears to be putting together a competent team. Liberals won’t like some of
them, because (of course) they aren’t liberal and don’t support liberal points
of view. But realistically he is looking
at a lot of pretty competent people, many of them outside the incestuous Washington
“revolving door” insider group, which is healthy.
d) Like
all presidential candidates (like Obama did and and like Hillary would have
done), he is already backing away from some of his more extreme election promises.
For example, when Obamacare dies (either of its own accord or because the
Republicans kill it), he apparently intends to keep the coverage of children up
to age 26 on their parent’s policies, and the requirement to sell insurance to
anyone, regardless of prior medical condition. I suspect that some of his other
pledges, like improving immigration screening, will turn out in the end to be
quite reasonable as implemented.
Once the hyperventilating on the web dies down and the
crazies get off the streets, I expect this will begin to look like a perfectly normal
presidential transition. Liberals will continue to kvetch, no doubt, but there is a fairly good chance that a Trump
presidency will be no worse that the Obama presidency and even a reasonable
chance that it will be better.
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