The bust of President-elect Donald Trump is displayed at the wax museum in Madrid. Francisco Seco AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States. That is the situation the American people and the world have to contend with for the next four years, and nothing can change that.
Control of the White House, a large majority in the House of Representatives, the Senate and the likelihood of a conservative election to fill the vacant Supreme Court position gives the Republican party and Donald Trump an enormous amount of power over the course of his term.
This likely spells a grand rollback of the environmental, healthcare, civil (gay) rights, foreign affairs and gun control policies the Obama administration has painfully inched towards fruition in a presidency defined by Republican obstruction. What it will entail to policies on immigration and women’s reproductive rights cannot yet be known, only that it is unlikely to be favourable for the chief demographics involved.
