A Unique Perspective on Donald Trump

If a week is a long time in politics, a year is an eternity. 2004 is undoubtedly a year to be marked with a milestone in US and world history. Whilst Trump’s recent victory in the November 5th presidential elections is not a surprise, the road to victory was full of unexpected events. Who would have imagined in January 2024 that Joe Biden would be forced out of the race and that his vice president, Kamala Harris, would, like in the best “The West Wing” scripts, replace him on the Democratic ticket? However, one can presume that Aaron Sorkin would have written a different ending.

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As a neophyte author and political commentator, I couldn’t have hoped for a more dramatic series of events, and each month brought its own twists and turns to an already unpredictable plot.

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Unfortunately, we are not sitting comfortably in our living rooms watching a political series unfold in a fictional world. The events of 2024 are all too real and will have a fundamental impact on our lives, not just as individuals but as citizens of our respective countries.

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To quote Stefan Zweig, “It is an iron law of history that those who are caught up in the great movements determining the course of their own times always fail to recognise them in their early stages.” I can only hope that the three editions of “2024 A Call to Arms” will humbly enlighten you and allow you to see through the fog of political Newspeak and propaganda. As the second Trump presidency gets underway,we can only wait with bated breath to see if the Cassandra-like proclamations of Trump’s opponents will prove them right. For my part, I am convinced that 2024 will mark the end of “a” world, a world we have become so accustomed to since the end of the Second World War. I do not subscribe to the dystopian view that all is lost and that it is the end of “the” world.

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