That’s because I’m Dutch and still rolling on the floor over this past election result from the USA, showing the utter madness that a Democracy can be, sometimes. Then again, the people in the USA didn’t have much to choose from, did they?

Many people were actually surprised that Trump got elected, which is strange as both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are both about equally popular. The USA is basically a binary system, as there aren’t many alternative choices. Well, not voting is a choice, albeit a very bad one as you won’t get anything to say afterwards. But judging by the huge amounts of protests from the US population and all the bad things being said about Trump, it still is a bit of a surprise.

But again, binary system! The population of the USA is roughly divided into just two groups and many of these voters are unlikely to switch sides. There are, of course, many swing voters who can go either way but in general, both parties have their own loyal supporters. With no alternative choice than basically two bad candidates, many voters didn’t have any reason to switch sides, although Hillary Clinton did have a past history as First Lady and some Democrats might have wanted to keep her husband out of the White House.

So, today, Donald Trump will be crowned as the New President of the USA. So, utter chaos next?

No, I don’t think so. The Republican Party has been in power many times before and even had some very good Presidents in the past. Lincoln was a Republican. So was Eisenhower and Reagan. Reagan was an important factor in the end of the Cold War, even! Sure, he used to be an actor but in the 1984 elections, he pulverized his Democratic opponent Walter Mondale.

But this election was very close again. Clinton won the Popular Vote but in the USA that isn’t important. Trump just won the most electoral votes.

Then again, many people are also ignoring the fact that Faith Spotted Eagle also won one electoral vote during this election, thus becoming the first Native American to receive one such vote. Well, thanks to a faithless elector in Washington who was supposed to vote for Clinton…

Several other faithless electors decided not to vote for Clinton, which clearly tells me that she wasn’t a favorite among her own party. And that also explains why Trump got elected. Hillary Clinton just wasn’t the best candidate to pick for the Democrats.

First of all, Hillary Clinton would have been the first female POTUS if she was elected. But as the USA business world is still strongly male-oriented, I think her gender was already costing her some votes. She is also known as a former FLOTUS while her husband Bill was in office. And Bill Clinton had smoked a bad cigar while in office so it is understandable that some people would not like to see him return to the White House. Then there were some scandals about emails and an embassy in Libya and something involving the sexual abuse of minors and more fake news that put her in a bad spotlight, but that also happened to Donald Trump. Fact is, this election saw so much fake news that most people stopped believing all of it. They just relied on things they knew from the past.

I think Bernie Sanders would have been a much better choice anyway. Still, the Democrats choose Clinton and they’re allowed to make such mistakes. Considering that Hillary won the Popular Vote, it still wasn’t that bad.

So, what will happen next? Trump is a businessman and as such, he’s known to try and make companies more profitable. Sure, some of his companies went broke but overall, he has been reasonably successful with his businesses. Maybe with the bit of fraudulent support but still, he has collected quite a bit of wealth in his lifetime. Lost a lot too, though.

First of all, his tax plans don’t seem to be that bad. It seems that low-income Americans won’t even have to pay any taxes. And as he wants to reduce the number of brackets from 7 to 3, income tax should become a bit simpler for everyone.

He does want to repeal the Obamacare tax, though. Also called the Affordable Care Act, the Obamacare is considered extremely valuable for many Americans as it means that each and every one of them will at least have some minimum health care so people can get sick without going broke. But repealing the tax doesn’t repeal the act itself. In fact, Trump might find some other solution to fund this care, maybe change a thing or two, have it renamed to Trumpcare and POOF! Obamacare is gone! Yet the system would have barely changed and all Americans would still have basic health care.

Immigration is also a hot topic and Trump wants to build a wall to keep Mexicans out of the USA. And probably have Mexican companies doing most of the building of this wall as the Mexican government might want to subsidize the extra employment for their own population. A more strict policy on illegal immigrants might be useful as it could actually increase the wages of the legal immigrants! So, we’ll just have to wait and see what will happen…

Of course, Donald Trump has his site full with interesting plans that all sound quite nice. He’s a Master Merchant at this, knowing how to sell his ideas to the public, as he has done all his life with all his businesses. Trump is a Master at Selling and we can only hope that he will keep to his promises. But in the end, it isn’t Trump who is in Power. It is the Republican Party that is in Power and Trump is just their main spokesperson. He can’t do much that his party won’t approve, as they would just vote against him and probably even force him to step down, if need be. Barack Obama had similar problems as he had Great Plans, but could not get all of them executed as his own party and the Republican Party shot most plans down again. Donald Trump will have the same problem as the Democratic Party will try to resist any of his plans. So he needs the support of all the Republicans, else they just tip the balance against him.

The USA is just a binary system which makes it difficult to rule and have a lot of changes. Not many Presidents have managed to make a lot of changes to the whole system. Trump does have the advantage that the Senate is mostly Republican also so for a while, he will be able to execute some of his better plans. But in 2018 we will see the next Senate Election and as the Democrats won 3 seats in the past election, chances are that the Democrats will soon be in control over the Senate and thus stop whatever Trump has planned.

So Trump will have less than 2 years to prove his success as the next POTUS. And while many people hope he will fail, I realise that Trump failing as President will just bring more Chaos in the USA. So I’m expecting a few errors from Trump and a few successes and in 4 years, there will be new elections and by then, the Democrats will likely pick a better candidate.

Would be nice if Faith Spotted Eagle became the next POTUS, though. A Native American Female President! How cool would that be?