On 9 November 2016, to the astonishment of many Americans and citizens around the world, Donald Trump was elected the 45th President of the United States; the man who vows to “make America great again” through his (and his apostle’s) abhorrence for undocumented immigrants, and the reversal of our progress towards addressing climate change, among other rhetoric.
The overall disappointment cannot be summed up within any brief statement. But there are universal problems regarding his ambitions that any reasonably thinking individual can observe.
Twenty-seven years ago on 9 November 1989, a nation of patriots, having struggled with the division of its citizens for nearly a half of a century prior, tore down the very infrastructure that symbolized and upheld division rather than unity, the Berlin Wall.
