Tag: Post US Elections Geopolitics 1

NOVANEWS Part One: Trump and Trumpism This is the first installment of a series of six weekly articles on my reflections on post US-elections geopolitics. Trump’s electoral victory is a good reason to reflect on a whole range of bigger issues that have been crowded out by the ear-splitting anti-Trump campaigns in America and liberal-left circles in Europe. The hysteria, no doubt, is a passing phenomenon. Some diehards will continue, perhaps even plot to assassinate him, but the rest will settle down to the demands of routine existence. We, on our part in Africa, need to make a cool, strategic assessment and consider what these elections mean for us. 1 Trump and Trumpism Trump is an avant-garde – unconventional but also, in some odd ways, innovative. To my knowledge there has never be...