I think Cecelia's pretty close. I would also add:
- Improvements to our health care system. Yes, I think it's possible, though I'm not counting on it. I do not believe it would be politically feasible to pass a system taking health care away from the ~25 million people who now have it but didn't have it before the ACA. The mandate that pre-existing conditions not be a bar to coverage remains (I do believe this will be the case)
- Dramatic reduction in foreign interventionism. The "free world" now looks to Merkel and Trudeau for guidance; I actually think it will be nice to be out of the spotlight. As long as we don't demand it by doing increasingly dumb things on an international scale.
- Deportations don't dramatically increase (they've been at historically high rates recently, if I understand correctly)
- Money isn't wasted on things like drug testing for welfare recipients and such
- Trump's tax plan (projected to create a deficit of 6 trillion) is tempered and combined with the current system, and changes are made gradually (Trump's idea to make up deficits from decreased income tax has been to "cut fraud" and "reduce inefficiency" and such. I don't think any democrat or any fiscally-minded republican will let him get away with tax cuts without articulating in a far more concrete manner where the money (or reduced spending) is going to come from)
- There is a sudden infusion of money from companies (especially in the energy sector; manufacturing isn't coming back) that see Trump as an opportunity to expand. Best-case scenario, of course, involves an ever-increasing, galvanized majority of the populace demanding that some of this new energy money be redirected to environmental causes. (BTW, best case scenario for the environment is that it's not... that much... worse off than before. Maybe Scandinavia can cover for us for 4 years)
- The end of the war on drugs
- The new generation of Berniecrats and Warrenites is born. Increased push back from the millennial demographic, which is finally becoming politically powerful. A galvanized "new democratic party."
- Improvements to our health care system. Yes, I think it's possible, though I'm not counting on it. I do not believe it would be politically feasible to pass a system taking health care away from the ~25 million people who now have it but didn't have it before the ACA. The mandate that pre-existing conditions not be a bar to coverage remains (I do believe this will be the case)
- Dramatic reduction in foreign interventionism. The "free world" now looks to Merkel and Trudeau for guidance; I actually think it will be nice to be out of the spotlight. As long as we don't demand it by doing increasingly dumb things on an international scale.
- Deportations don't dramatically increase (they've been at historically high rates recently, if I understand correctly)
- Money isn't wasted on things like drug testing for welfare recipients and such
- Trump's tax plan (projected to create a deficit of 6 trillion) is tempered and combined with the current system, and changes are made gradually (Trump's idea to make up deficits from decreased income tax has been to "cut fraud" and "reduce inefficiency" and such. I don't think any democrat or any fiscally-minded republican will let him get away with tax cuts without articulating in a far more concrete manner where the money (or reduced spending) is going to come from)
- There is a sudden infusion of money from companies (especially in the energy sector; manufacturing isn't coming back) that see Trump as an opportunity to expand. Best-case scenario, of course, involves an ever-increasing, galvanized majority of the populace demanding that some of this new energy money be redirected to environmental causes. (BTW, best case scenario for the environment is that it's not... that much... worse off than before. Maybe Scandinavia can cover for us for 4 years)
- The end of the war on drugs
- The new generation of Berniecrats and Warrenites is born. Increased push back from the millennial demographic, which is finally becoming politically powerful. A galvanized "new democratic party."
How will we know, when the morning comes, we are still human? - 2D
Don't worry, my friend. If this be the end, then so shall it be.
Don't worry, my friend. If this be the end, then so shall it be.