Barely hours left before America goes to the polls to determine the world's future. For the American Presidency affects us all not only now but for the foreseeable future. The Republican candidate is simply unique as a character and seems to most observers to be a terrible Presidential prospect. His hate-mongering campaign, below-the-belt blows delivered at his adversary Clinton and personal profile of a pernicious type make him, as per most analysts the world over, the most dangerous political proposition should he emerge victorious after tomorrow. Donald Trump represents the radical right of America with all its past associations of racism, segregation and white high-handedness. His anti-Muslim, anti-Hispanic and a host of other populist and negative slogans have not helped his campaign and certainly pose a major hindrance in his way to the White House. The Russian President Vladimir Putin, not a very well-liked personality in Europe or in America, has been backing Trump's potential presidency, so it is widely believed in America. Trump made foolish statements in a hurry to humiliate Hillary by urging the Russians to hack into her deleted lot of official email made from her private account. All these backfired later in the Presidential campaign as the short-sighted Trump, confounded by the turn of events and by his own muddled understanding of electoral politics, kept jumping from one foot to the other in his bid to salvage lost ground while the shrewd Hillary made the most out of her opponent's folly, despite the fact that she had little credibility to begin her campaign with owing to her email controversy. How Hillary Clinton survived through her email ordeal to come to this day when she runs the chance of making history by becoming America's first woman President is no mystery to most but must be attributed to Donald Trump's unscientific medieval way of going about wooing voters in a country which is so cosmopolitan that exclusiveness of electoral approach will surely backfire. The anti-incumbency factor would surely have been in Trump's favour to begin with but his histrionics have now made his earlier advantages history as he battles to survive today's titanic tussle when America decides who they wish to be their leader.
It was a glorious opportunity for Trump to do a Reagan who, unlike Trump's business background, hailed from Hollywood heroism but matured into one of America's most successful Presidents having the destruction of communism and the end of the Cold War as his historic achievements. But Reagan was seasoned in politics and Trump is not. And herein lies the essential difference between the two and America's fear of he being the possible commander-in-chief of American forces with little knowledge and no wisdom to deal with the hawks of international politics and their perfidious designs. The nuclear button in the hands of an exasperated Trump, one shudders to think what may precipitate!
Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, is a seasoned politician, having been in public life for decades. Wife to Bill Clinton, former President of the United States twice over, the first female Senator from New York in 2000 and later Secretary of State in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2013, Hillary has her credentials cut out as a politician who can perform on the world stage in a sensible, mature way unlike Trump's boorish, immature way at the helm of affairs. However, Hillary's horrific email episode, when she used her personal email account while conducting official business as U.S. Secretary of State, significantly eroded her chances of winning the Presidential election. It was Trump's failure to exploit the issue and his constant negative propaganda against minorities alienating them from his camp that led to her renaissance in the Presidential campaign till she now seems to be on the verge of clinching this cliff-hanger of a campaign by triumphing over Trump.
Hail Hillary! Unto you belongs the morrow. History is in the making. Like Washington, like Lincoln, like Kennedy, unto you belong the unwritten pages of history for you to enshrine therein your name and deeds for posterity to forever cherish.
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