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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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