As the United States’ first African-American president prepares to conclude his last days in the Oval Office this week, many across the country are staging demonstrations denouncing Donald Trump’s pending inauguration this Friday in the nation’s capital. Anti-Trump rallies have been going on since November’s election, with several more scheduled for Friday, as well as throughout the weekend.
“We lasted through five centuries of slavery here in the wilderness of North America, plus eight years of Reagan, four of daddy Bush and eight with Bush Jr., so what is four [years] with Chump gonna do?” rhetorically questioned social critic, La Meh Nua.
Such resistance against a democratically elected president has not been seen in this country since another Republican front-runner Ronald Reagan, became president during the early 1980s.
That a man who many charge is a narcissist with overtly old-school racist views is slated to run this country for the next four years has many observers saying that Trump will set America back a few decades, pre-Civil Rights era, and may undo much of the progress gained during Obama’s eight-year reign.
“After two Obama terms, now it’s back to the same old, same old,” Nua contended. “Rich Caucasian men running things. Already in the first couple of weeks of the New Year, and we already lost Obamacare. What’s next, we gonna have to give back our Obama-phones too?”
With the president-elect making threats during his campaign to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border and saying he was going after Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe, many people are wondering if he even knows how politics actually function.
Will the United States of America stand for it, or will the political system of checks and balances eventually even out the playing field? Some analysts are already setting odds on whether Trump will last the full four years of his tenure or be impeached before then.