Trump, technology, talent and trust

This election has been a full-scale repudiation of the unrestricted immigration into the US.

- RAJESH MEHTA

Trump's re-election bid has ushered America into new waters. In some ways, it's a return of a previous period and in other ways, a transition to new. Donald Trump is the second President in US history to be elected to office in non-consecutive terms, following Grover Cleveland. He is also the first President in office to be a convicted felon, something that followed his previous term in office. Unlike the previous term, on this occasion he has also won the popular vote which is an additional affirmation to his policies and the faith reposed by the American people.

More importantly, this reelection into office can no longer be considered a blip or an aberration in American politics that Trump managed to secure a win through a fluke of the Electoral College. This win is complete for Trump and the Republicans in the White House, Senate and Congress-not to mention in each of the so-called swing states that determined the outcome of the Presidential election. This is now Trump's Republican Party and Trump's America.

This election has been a full-scale repudiation of the unrestricted immigration into the US, in particular from the southern border, the excesses of political correctness and gender politics practised by his opponents, the unwillingness to bring the working class under its umbrella by the Democrats and the inability to rein in high inflation in the US by the Biden administration.