What will happen to America if Trump is elected?

[Senator Spark]

[Lyin' Steve]

Nations around the world will roll their eyes, Russia will make a lot of aggressive moves without fear of sophisticated reprisals from the United States, virtually the entirety of his domestic agenda will be blocked by Congress and he'll most likely be impeached within two years.  The press will be dominated by leaks from his staffers expressing frustration and astonishment at his sheer incompetence and lack of patience or capability to understand nuance.  With luck, there won't be any major crises he has to handle.  If there are, we will just have to trust in Mike Pence's consistency and competence to play ringleader behind Trump's back.

[Ebowed]

[BlueSwan]

[Southern Delegate matthew27]

Best case: Trump turns into FDR and tells the economic liberterians to go off  themselfs. He Invests huge sums of money in repairing our infrastructure, reforming education and bringing millions of jobs back to our soil, but he does it in away that doesn't make the world angry with him and he uses the best people to do it. He also enforces our anti-trust laws allowing far more competition for the first time in decades and reworks our trade deals to favor our country...Any business that outsources gets taxed big time. He gets a lot of what he wants on immigration and probably a wall.  

The best case would probably be with a democratic senate and only a very small republican majority in the house. He is going to get along to go along in many ways...If the tea party is defeated = he'll be more rational.

What is most likely: Trump comes to power and pretty much screams at congress, the world and the American people to give him what he wants. He is forced to pretty much agree with the liberterian gop congress(Speaker Ryan) against his inner wishes and slashes government...Abolishing Energy, Education and probably more. The gop congresses passes a bill increasing funding for added border guards and alot more deportations. Pretty much we have a smaller, less funded and weaker country! Congress pretty much blocks him on remaking trade deals the way he wishes to make them as the moderates in both parties make sure of it.

Worse case: On the home front the congress freedom caucus takes over and elects the next speaker of the house. This new speaker is a hard core radical that hates government with a passion but also a nationalist! The republicans also keep the senate in this case but the radical faction also takes over that... On one hand Trump gets his wall across the border, 11 million people are deported and gets to be a hard core isolationist on trade. The tea party congress also allows him to use torture and other means to destroy any enemy that dares stand up to him. The bad news on the homefront is all funding for anything that wasn't around in the 18th century is slowly removed and America starts looking more like North Korea...Big military, powerful fascist congress but one that doesn't give a damn about anyone that doesn't have millions of bucks in the bank! Trump pretty much tariffs the hell out of all companies over sea's, which forces them back, but then he turns his back on all issues of workers rights so these companies can pay pennies per hour to American workers...Pretty much the glided age again rises on America.

Americas middle class dies and is replaced with a ever expanding lower class of serfs for the few at the top.

[Tender Branson]

He won't win.

With CO and VA Hillary's at 273 and I don't see how Trump wins any of the other Obama states.

[Lyin' Steve]

Best case: Trump turns into FDR and tells the economic liberterians to go off  themselfs. He Invests huge sums of money in repairing our infrastructure, reforming education and bringing millions of jobs back to our soil, but he does it in away that doesn't make the world angry with him and he uses the best people to do it. He also enforces our anti-trust laws allowing far more competition for the first time in decades and reworks our trade deals to favor our country...Any business that outsources gets taxed big time. He gets a lot of what he wants on immigration and probably a wall. 

The best case would probably be with a democratic senate and only a very small republican majority in the house.

What is most likely: Trump comes to power and pretty much screams at congress, the world and the American people to give him what he wants. He is forced to pretty much agree with the liberterian gop congress(Speaker Ryan) against his inner wishes and slashes government...Abolishing Energy, Education and probably more. The gop congresses passes a bill increasing funding for added border guards and alot more deportations. Pretty much we have a smaller, less funded and weaker country! Congress pretty much blocks him on remaking trade deals the way he wishes to make them as the moderates in both parties make sure of it.

Worse case: On the home front the congress freedom caucus takes over and elects the next speaker of the house. This new speaker is a hard core radical that hates government with a passion but also a nationalist! The republicans also keep the senate in this case but the radical faction also takes over that... On one hand Trump gets his wall across the border, 11 million people are deported and gets to be a hard core isolationist on trade. The tea party congress also allows him to use torture and other means to destroy any enemy that dares stand up to him. The bad news on the homefront is all funding for anything that wasn't around in the 18th century is slowly removed and America starts looking more like North Korea...Big military, powerful fascist congress but one that doesn't give a damn about anyone that doesn't have millions of bucks in the bank! Trump pretty much tariffs the hell out of all companies over sea's, which forces them back, but then he turns his back on all issues of workers rights so these companies can pay pennies per hour to American workers...Pretty much the glided age again rises on America.

Americas middle class dies and is replaced with a ever expanding lower class of serfs for the few at the top.

Hey this post seems familiar...

[Southern Delegate matthew27]

Best case: Trump turns into FDR and tells the economic liberterians to go off  themselfs. He Invests huge sums of money in repairing our infrastructure, reforming education and bringing millions of jobs back to our soil, but he does it in away that doesn't make the world angry with him and he uses the best people to do it. He also enforces our anti-trust laws allowing far more competition for the first time in decades and reworks our trade deals to favor our country...Any business that outsources gets taxed big time. He gets a lot of what he wants on immigration and probably a wall. 

The best case would probably be with a democratic senate and only a very small republican majority in the house.

What is most likely: Trump comes to power and pretty much screams at congress, the world and the American people to give him what he wants. He is forced to pretty much agree with the liberterian gop congress(Speaker Ryan) against his inner wishes and slashes government...Abolishing Energy, Education and probably more. The gop congresses passes a bill increasing funding for added border guards and alot more deportations. Pretty much we have a smaller, less funded and weaker country! Congress pretty much blocks him on remaking trade deals the way he wishes to make them as the moderates in both parties make sure of it.

Worse case: On the home front the congress freedom caucus takes over and elects the next speaker of the house. This new speaker is a hard core radical that hates government with a passion but also a nationalist! The republicans also keep the senate in this case but the radical faction also takes over that... On one hand Trump gets his wall across the border, 11 million people are deported and gets to be a hard core isolationist on trade. The tea party congress also allows him to use torture and other means to destroy any enemy that dares stand up to him. The bad news on the homefront is all funding for anything that wasn't around in the 18th century is slowly removed and America starts looking more like North Korea...Big military, powerful fascist congress but one that doesn't give a damn about anyone that doesn't have millions of bucks in the bank! Trump pretty much tariffs the hell out of all companies over sea's, which forces them back, but then he turns his back on all issues of workers rights so these companies can pay pennies per hour to American workers...Pretty much the glided age again rises on America.

Americas middle class dies and is replaced with a ever expanding lower class of serfs for the few at the top.

Hey this post seems familiar...

I reposted it but added a few more lines this time.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

International humiliation and domestic decline.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Best Case: Trump governs as a slightly-less competent and more erratic Gov. Schwartzenegger. As a prominent but controversial public figure, he serves out his full term with his supporters making a plausible case that he's been the most effective President since Reagan.

Median: Trump actually doesn't govern, and/or doesn't serve out his full term. There are multiple major scandals and power-struggles in the Trump administration. Liberal institutions and ideals, from the EPA to civil rights, face significant erosion. The US faces its greatest level of domestic strife since the Civil War, a stumbling economy, and disastrous foreign policy.


Worst Case: the disintegration of the United States, global war, massive economic collapse, and the end of modern civilization. All as the direct results of Trump's actions. Future generations living in the post-apocalypse use Trump as a replacement for Satan, and their scholars question the humanity of Trump and his followers.

[ag]

[HAnnA MArin County]

The Apocalypse.

[Senator Spark]

The Apocalypse.

Exactly. Please specify which type of apocalypse.

[kyc0705]

[Wells]

You guys are optimists.

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

Everyone in this country who is filled with hate will be emboldened.  Trump's victory will demonstrate that it is ok to say terrible things about women, and it will be the triumph of white power over minorities.  Bullying and demagoguery will have won the day, and politicians will learn the lesson that making sweeping promises as a strongman is more important than actual political substance.

If Trump got his way in implementing his trade and economic policies (perhaps thanks to a midterm purge of Congressional free-traders in 2018), we would return to the stagflation of the 1970s.  Tariffs and taxes on businesses operating overseas would result in a rapid rise in the price of goods.  Jobs might be created, but everyone would keep demanding higher wages to pay for more expensive goods, resulting in an inflationary spiral.  Ironically, high inflation would rapidly wipe out the student loan debts of an entire generation, but they would be unable to buy homes thanks to outrageous interest rates.  Worst case scenario, things get so bad that Trump loses in the 2020 primaries to a paleoconservative promising to end the Fed and return us to gold.

Globally, we would be a laughingstock with zero credibility.  Organizations like ISIS would know they could operate with impunity throughout the world, thanks to a United States with no coherent foreign policy and severely damaged alliances.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Our infrastructure will be rebuilt at twice the rate Hillary Clinton intends to all without the absurd liberal bourgeoisie taxes on the poor who decline to live a certain "lifestyle" of organic kale for breakfast, lunch and dinner to help "pay for it." Traditional values will once again be espoused as the righteous way, and the radical left will have no mandate to continue with their push of "degeneracy for all."

Inversions will end. Wages will rise. And America will be nearly as beautiful and rich as the man leading her.

[Koharu]

Nations around the world will roll their eyes, Russia will make a lot of aggressive moves without fear of sophisticated reprisals from the United States, virtually the entirety of his domestic agenda will be blocked by Congress and he'll most likely be impeached within two years.  The press will be dominated by leaks from his staffers expressing frustration and astonishment at his sheer incompetence and lack of patience or capability to understand nuance.  With luck, there won't be any major crises he has to handle.  If there are, we will just have to trust in Mike Pence's consistency and competence to play ringleader behind Trump's back.

This, plus a significant worsening of race (and faith) relations around the country, with riots and hate-motivated shootings becoming much more common.