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If you're afraid of the US President, moving abroad isn't helpful. His domestic power is severely limited and checks-n-balanced.

Granted, that only counts for fear of a semi-tyrannical president, not necessarily for economic concerns.

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One of the things that could make this the most important presidential election in history is that there could be an unprecendented number of Supreme Court nominations in the next 4-8 years. That, to me, is what makes this such an important election since the SC has, in my opinion, been stepping beyond its power in the last 10 years so the utility of nomination becomes even more important.

Other than that, you're right, House and Senate control is far more important. But don't underestimate these god-awful presidential signing statements that have become so popular. Appointed cabinet positions can make quite a difference depending on the domain. There are other ways to side-step the separation of powers.

This is breathtakingly naive. The man has coasted to power on a wave of vicious prejudice. Go back and look at the highlights of the GOP convention to get an idea of how he intends to govern.

Republicans won the House and Senate too, and he gets to appoint probably 3 justices to the Supreme Court.

So it'll be a more unified government than you've seen in a long time, which makes Trump able to get a lot of his platform through.

It's a great time to live in America.

What's that anyway, besides 'building a wall and make Mexico pay for it'?

He has his 'contract with the American voter' on his site:

https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/_landings/contract/O-TRU-102...

The big ones are term limits for Congress and lower taxes.

The big one is the climate change issues. And the Supreme Court ouch. Also health care.

On the dooms day clock of climate change, the time is past midnight. This is not good.

Mexico will be paying in Pesos, because US$ just got 12% more expensive for them in the last 8 hours.

Well, there's putting the brakes on globalization, fewer foreign wars, lower government spending (and probably some progress on reducing the national debt, which has increased more in the last eight years more than all of the 232 years prior to that, combined), among other things.

You do realize that the US is relevant only because of globalization?

Relevant to whom? While international friendship is great, we don't have to bomb anyone to be happy ourselves. Arguably, less international aggression would make the world in general happier as well.

Relevant at science, technology, economy, everything related. I do not mean military relevance and some nebulous definition of being a superpower.

Trump's tax plan involves adding significantly to the debt:

https://www.americanactionforum.org/research/budgetary-impac...

http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trai...

It's the same sort of thing as a lot of left wing policitians favour. Incur a lot of debt, and then that's going to cause so much growth that you'll come out smelling of roses.

Left wing politicians tend to do things that are actually useful with that money though. Trump just gives himself tax breaks.

Not any more. Bush and Obama really pushed the boundaries of what's possible with executive actions. He's also going to have the most invasive surveillance state in human history at his fingertips, and he's surrounded himself with people who love to settle scores.

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