Yeah, we're witnessing a search in the polls by Trump in the last few days has been narrowing
the gap with Clinton, but his path leading to the White House is still pretty narrow.
He has to win in three crucial better ground states, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, while
maintaining all the other crucial red states, Utah, Arizona, Georgia, and so on, to win.
And at the moment, Trump is trailing in Pennsylvania by a wide margin, but is still fighting in
Ohio and in Florida where the result is at the moment is too close to call.
So I don't know whether the new scandal might prompt Trump to get to that White House, but
as it was a week ago or two weeks ago, his path leading to the White House is still pretty
narrow at the moment.
Well, I personally do not believe that the US president is that powerful.
He doesn't garner enough power to change the US stance or to alter the course of history.
In the US society produces politics, that's with the Founding Fathers wanted it, and that's
what usually happens, meaning that what we're going to see in the future will happen regardless
of whom will be elected president.
Those trends are already motion in the US society.
The American lower middle class has been damaged by globalization, has seen manufacturing
jobs being shipped overseas in the past 20 years, I'd say, and now they were demanding
a more introverted approach towards economy.
Free trade promotion will be altered in the next years.
Free trade agreements might be abandoned altogether.
I believe that the US one would draw from the NAFTA treaty, but other free trade agreements
might be abandoned or not ratified in the next months and next years.
So what we're going to witness is in America being more introverted, a sort of semi-isolationist
American in the next few years, and that will happen according to me regardless of whom
will be elected president November 8th.
Well we've been witnessing for sure sort of a revolt against the establishment, against
both parties, I'd say, the usual parties in the US, of course Democrats and Republicans,
because the lower middle class, but I'd say the middle class overall in the US has felt
it still feels neglected by the establishment.
The establishment according to them has been focusing of late on minorities trying to gain
their appreciation, on the other side has been focusing on the elite, but the middle
class feels neglected and that's the reason why we're witnessing such a revolt against
the establishment at this point.
I don't know whether the American parties will be able in the future to regain ground
on that front, to convince the American public to trust them again.
What we know as of now is that the establishment has been faring pretty badly nowadays, is faring
pretty badly nowadays, and what we're witnessing according to me is a revolt against the establishment,
against all parties, and that's closely related to the ailing of the American middle class.
Where there might be some similarities, because of course the revolt against the establishment
is something that we're witnessing as well here in Europe, but I'd say that conditions
are pretty different.
In the US, the wide middle class feels threatened by globalization and by the surging of other
minorities, Hispanics, first and foremost, that's something that of course is not happening
in Europe.
If you want to find a similarity, the revolt against establishment is the right path to
follow.
But other than that, I don't see other similarities as the American condition is pretty peculiar
and I'd say different from Europe, especially considering that globalization is a product
of US supremacy over the globe, so of course that's something that it's not related to
Europe, it's something that it's only related to the US.
So I'd say that there's a similarity, but there are also clear differences between the
US and Europe, even at this moment.
