An Iraqi boy runs through a field covered with ammunition in the city of Al Dejeel, about 70 km north of Baghdad, May 5, 2003. Picture by DPA DEUTSCHE PRESS-AGENTUR DPA/PA Images. All rights reserved. The bizarre behavior of Donald Trump during the presidential campaign defined the strategy of the Clinton campaign: they abandoned in-depth discussions of the ‘issues’, and focused on Trump’s outlandish behavior. Democrats believed that if they highlighted the flaws of Trump, the voters would understand the threat he poses to the world, and eventually run away from him.
Donald Trump would be a sad reminder of virtually all the mainstream politicians you have lived under
Now he is the president, and the rhetoric has not gone away. A deep sense of fear and frustration aroused by his words and action, coupled with typical western self-absorbedness that equates the potential end of the west as we know it with the end of the world, has spawned innumerable doom-and-gloom scenarios.
