As Trump romps home again.
By Nnamdi Nwigwe
All appears to be quiet at the “American Front” as Donald Trump returns to the White House to do a second and final term as the President of the United States of America, USA which is now more commonly referred to as the US.
He had surprised many experts and pollsters in 2020 by winning against all odds, including the indifference of his Republican Party.
He dared both his party by pushing past the primaries and the vocal American public affairs experts and pollsters who gave him no chance of success.
Again this time around, he was labelled a felon, a convict and a confused immigrants-hater whom the Democrats and their charismatic candidate Kamala Harris will teach a lesson of his life
Now that the tally is out and Trump is victorious, all the “experts” and Americologists have gone dumb because they had majorly ascribed the next White House residency to Harris.
They justified their hope or perhaps their conviction to the razzmatazz and prancing campaign style of Kamala Harris who thought that the journey to the White House was all that easy.
Policy wise she did not calculate the enormity of the harm she was doing to her prospect by denouncing or contradicting positions of the Sitting President, Joe Biden, whose deputy she still is.
Deceptive crowds deceived her.
Immigrants who have the privilege to vote in a foreign land soon forgot that they are in the minority.
Analysts abroad, including those in Nigeria regaled their audience with arguments and prognostications that were nothing more than their individual wishes.
They bothered not to listen to what Native Americans were saying about their expectations which resonated with Trump’s vibes.
The amount of airtime and newspaper space Nigerian media devoted to the campaigns and the election of the US president dwarfed that devoted to our presidential and gubernatorial polls put together.
Surely our elite media – print and electronic – must appear to be cosmopolitan. Never mind that they are regurgitating what they pick up from foreign correspondents and specialist writers.
It’s only when you cultivate the habit of watching and listening to foreign media that you’ll appreciate the point that many of our self-acclaimed “experts” are mere echo chambers.
It is the observation of this writer that many Nigerians are distressed over the result of the latest US presidential election that brought back Donald Trump to preside over the affairs of the world’s strongest nation.
But ask them why they are crest-fallen and they will reel out well packaged propaganda of Trump’s opponents which include his tax problems and fierce hatred for “immigrants” even when Trump talks of a specific breed of immigrants: “Criminals among them.”
Who in Nigeria feels happy with the blatant inflow of armed terrorists into Nigeria from across our common borders and the inability of the authorities to effectively contain them?
Bottom line here is that we should learn to give greater attention to what’s happening in our country and help suggest effective solutions to them.
The ascribing of Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party’s nightmare to gender or colour is sheer balderdash!
One needs not bother to interrogate the events in America in these past couple of days.
It requires no expert to appreciate the impact of Trump’s campaign slogan: “Let’s MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, MAGA” might have had on the voters – the rustics.
Not the grandstanding elites.
- Mr. Nnamdi Nwigwe, a veteran journalist, wrote in from Owerri and can be reached via nnamdinwigwe7@gmail.com
