What If Donald Trump Wins The Election?

The private struggle of a leader

In every current administration, the oppositions always sound like the smartest people in the room. If you notice and listen to the stories from Harry Truman to Donald Trump, the oppositions always sound like the intelligent ones. The best candidate for the White House is always the one outside the White House. When the opposition candidate gets into the White House he becomes the unwise one, while his oppositions begin to sound more intelligent?

This made me curious. I began to examine the system of electing political leaders. And you will agree with me at the end of this article that nothing about who will win the November election is certain yet. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are trending to win the election, but what if Donald Trump wins, would we say he didn't deserve it or we misjudge the situation?

Some days ago, I published an article on this platform about Kamala Harris and the power of right collaboration. The power of right association and collaboration cannot be overstressed and it’s an important key to success.

But you will always need combinations of keys to be successful in life, not a single key.

The trending Biden + Kamala combination as the preferred choice for America may have been overrated to succeed in the November election.

Why does the President sound unwise and the oppositions sound smart?

“As indecisive as I’ve ever seen a President in dealing with a crisis.” — Rick Santorum

Senator Rick directed this statement at Barack Obama during the Arab spring. Someone once referred to Obama as ‘spectator-in-chief’ during the same Arab spring in 2011–2014. Obama can’t present a more intelligent argument to the public to understand what he was doing then. But when you listen to Obama now, he sounds smarter to the average public than Trump. This is not usually the best way to decide on a better candidate for President for so many reasons.

I noticed some reasons the President seems unwise while the oppositions sound intelligent. I will explain two of them:

1. A leader has a primary bird-view responsibility before the secondary specific ones.

The President is responsible for America, not a group’s ideology. This is one of the significant misunderstandings of many people about leadership.

The struggle in leadership is sometimes balancing the bird-view interest with specific interests.

It’s only a few people in the public that can imagine the bird-view perspective. Most times the group interest is what the public support. And where there is a conflict between the two, a great leader should stay with the bird-view interest.

When we were young, some of our Parent’s decisions don’t make sense to our group interest (The kids). But when we examine in retrospect now, we can agree with their bird-view perspective then. Sometimes an opposition may boast of what he will never do if he becomes the President, but after few months into his administration, he’s already breaking that rule. It is because there is now a matured view that mostly come with experience, not a textbook explanation.

For example, some factors affected Obama’s policy of selective engagement during the Arab spring crisis. Selective engagement, in short, is not applying a particular diplomatic strategy to all the Arab nations the same way but to treat each nation with dialogue and diplomacy, not a threat of war. I perceived he couldn’t stick to that policy as he would have loved to.

Matured view in leadership mostly come with experience, not a textbook explanation.

Some of the factors that influence such decisions with a current President or any other leader shouldn’t be explained in details to the public. This is because the effect on the different categories of citizens would not be the same.

There are 3 categories of citizens in every country:

Category 1 — They don’t understand anything about the process of government, but they deserve good governance, and they demand it.

Category 2 — they understand a little about the process of government, but they don’t have the wholesome knowledge.

Category 3 — they understand the process of government, and they have an almost accurate idea of what is happening per time because they’ve experienced it before.

A great leader doesn’t release information of what he’s doing about a matter with only an exclusive category in mind. A great leader must release information that all the categories can understand. You will agree with me that such information cannot be satisfactory to an average citizen. That is why the President sounds unwise sometimes. But they will rather sound stupid than to be reckless.

2. Re-election blindness.

Sometimes the President works against what he believes is good and go with what is popular and can win him the election. Popularity is not equal to rightness. Popular opinion is not equal to rightness. Intelligent oppositions see through him at this point and raise the alarm of criticism that could win the public support if done properly.

When a leader underestimates the intelligence of his followers, he is making a public shame of himself. A leader should look beyond re-election and do the right thing but hardly does that happen in politics. Most of them want to do what will serve them well in the re-election. This is another reason they may look thoughtless than the oppositions. These are some of the private struggles of political leaders.

Is Donald Trump the Biblical Cyrus?

Last week, one of my friends made an allusion to Trump as another Cyrus of our time. Let me put it in simple terms. Trump might not be perfect, like Cyrus that was a pagan king in the Bible, but he’s the one America needs again to do what is right.

“Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD [spoken] by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put it] also in writing, saying.” — 2Chronicles 36:22

Whether the allusion to Cyrus is correct or not, I am not here to affirm or discredit it. But based on the objective fact presented above, citizens should not rush into conclusion on the right person for the White House job.

There are mockeries here and there about Donald Trump’s administration. But I perceived that there are quieter supporters of Donald Trump than the outspoken supporters of Biden.

The internet is fantastic, and social media is a blessing. Yet, from past observations, social media has been given overrated attention. People are aware now that trending opinions are not the truth. Recent events in the world have shown that the political and financial power of a group of people can control the thinking and behaviours of millions of people worldwide. Hence, Trump will win if his mouth won’t race before his heart.

Trending opinions are not necessarily the truth.

Conclusion

If you’ve followed my argument in this article and the one I wrote on Kamala Harris some days ago on this platform, you will know I am not a supporter of any party but a supporter of good leadership. You will also agree with me that nothing is certain yet about who will win the November election. I may feel that Trump will win, while you feel Biden will win but the knowledge that powers our different convictions is my focus.

Humans don’t feel or decide on something without the knowledge that is running it. If that knowledge is a bit corrupted, it is certain that our decisions will be faulty. I’ve tried to bring a balanced perspective to what is running our decisions. Whether I am right that Trump will win the election or someone else is right about Biden, the result in November will reveal it. And I hope we will return to this article to say; ‘you were right or you were wrong.’ Above all our stands and convictions, may Americans win the election in November.

God bless America.