When Donald Trump began his improbable Presidential race 15 months ago, opposition and fellow Republicans alike had little or no hope in his candidature.
He declared himself as a freewheeling businessman who had done his bit in the capitalistic world and now wished to switch gears and lead the world’s oldest democracy. He flashed his television career and business towers brightly. His political career had no crests or troughs because it did not exist. He did however, have a string of loud-mouthed, racist, xenophobic, sexist tweets to espouse by.
He was mocked at, ridiculed. He was easy to caricature. No one took him seriously, till he took the ‘deplorable’ yet sizable fraction of the American population by a storm. He won the coveted Republican Presidential nomination!
After winning primaries consistently, Trump slyly added a twist of fearmongering about Mexican “rapists” flooding across the Southern border.
From that moment of combustion, it became clear that Mr. Trump’s views were matters of dangerous impulse and cynical pandering rather than thoughtful politics. Yet he has attracted throngs of Americans who ascribe higher purpose to him than he has demonstrated.
A majority of Americans and people across the world abhor Trump’s politics. A large chunk of those people is constituted by students as depicted in the video.
What side of America do you see yourself?
Video Editor: Mohd Irshad Alam
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