Villager 11-15-2016

Be careful what you wish for.  If you voted for change in the last election, you are going to get plenty of it.

Trump will dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency, starting by placing Myron Ebell, a climate change denier at its head.  The progress that the US has made working with other countries to combat global warming will be at risk.  There will be more erratic weather patterns, rising sea levels, hurricanes, fires, droughts floods and famines.

Trump’s isolationist foreign policy will reduce US influence around the world.  His criticism of American commitments to our allies in NATO and South Korea raises uncertainty about our policies, and threatens America’s continuing influence around the world.  Russian President, Vladimir Putin is likely to take advantage of what he sees as America’s weakness, and Trumps’ wide-spread economic interests in Russia and elsewhere will only complicate America’s foreign relations.

Trump will nominate a new justice to the Supreme Court who will turn the court in a conservative direction for the next couple of decades.  The Court will continue to disable voting rights, limit women’s rights, and allow corporations to spend unlimited funds on political elections.

Some things will not change.  Workers in rust-belt America will continue to look for a decreasing number of jobs.  Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act) will not be repealed.  We will all be able to continue to watch the greatest reality TV show of all time . . .   until they turn off the power.

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About alexanderboulton

Alex Boulton is a historian (PhD College of William and Mary, 1991) specializing in early American cultural history. His Dissertation was titled "The Architecture of Slavery." He has written books on Frank Lloyd Wright and the Peloponnesian War and is currently working on two books: One on Thomas Jefferson's Family and the other on the evolution of the word and idea of race. He taught history at Stevenson University for twenty-five years until he retired in 2020. In addition to his PhD in history, he has an MA in American Studies from W&M and a BFA in fine arts from the Maryland Institute of Art. Before he entered grad school at W&M, he worked as a professional photographer. He lives in Baltimore Maryland.
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