The Morning After and who to blame or praise for the upset victory of Donald Trump By Wumi Akintide

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I, personally, I am still leaking my wounds this morning as I feel a lot more like Heavy Weight Champion George Foreman after he lost to Boxing legend Mohammed Ali in the Rumble in the Jungle Heavy Weight Title Fight at the Palace du Merchan Stadium in downtown Kinshasa in Zaire in 1981.

It was a fight that I had been privileged to watch as one of the guests of President Mobutu Sese Seko who attended the fight as the special Guest of Honor at the occasion as I recall.

I was in Zaire that weekend as a member of the CAFRAD Board of Trustees based in Tangiers, Morocco to persuade President Mobutu to accept the CAFRAD appointment of late Professor Thomas Kanza of Harvard University and a Zairean dissident in exile in Boston Massachusetts and one of the former Ministers of the late Prime Minister the late Patrice Lumumba of Zaire.

Before I go any further with this article in the spirit of Democracy which my own side of the great Divide in American Politics still cherish and embrace and despite the upset victory of Donald Trump, I still must be charitable and deferential enough to congratulate Donald Trump and his new team.

I must give it to Donald Trump that he had won the election fair and square, this time around, by winning both the popular vote and the Electoral College tally.

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In fact, he had done more by his Party winning back the Senate and possibly keeping their slight majority in the Lower Chamber.

It was a big victory for him and the Republican Party we cannot dismiss with the wave of the hand.

but I must still acknowledge and praise Kamala Harris and her Campaign team for running a great race even though she had fallen a bit short by losing the Electoral College tally by 223 to 276 and the popular vote by 4 to 5 million which is a big achievement.

Part of who to blame must include two deadly forces in American Politics namely Racism and Gender Bias which are still very much alive and well as we are all leaking our wounds and picking up the pieces this morning.

I would be among the first to submit that there is still plenty of blame to go around which would be analyzed in the weeks and months ahead and for the next 4 years of Donald Trump.

He who fights and runs away would live to see and win another fight

We could also point to most immigrants including Blacks and Latinos and Hispanics who had bent over backwards and had arguably missed the road to go vote against their own self- interest to go side and vote for Trump despite all of his glaring character flaws and criminalities. which are well known and well documented before the election.

Donald Trump has promised to be a Dictator from Day One.

Now that he has gotten his wish we are all going to see how he delivers on that promise without irredeemably hurting himself.

The greatest casualty of his upset victory, I guess in short order, is going to be Ukraine and NATO and the greatest beneficiary is going to be Vladimir Putin and all of the Communist Dictators he wants to emulate. That is going to be a story for another day as the struggle continues.

I will be contrite and humble enough to confess that we in the Democrats Party all got it wrong but surprisingly Donald Trump, for all of his shenanigans, had gotten it right by correctly analyzing or figuring out the mood of the great majority of American voters in this election.

That is the plain truth we all cannot and must not sweep under the carpet as we expect or anticipate the worst from a newly empowered, invigorated and energized Donald Trump and his team.

To just keep quiet and not say a word after this carnage of a defeat cannot be seen as a profile in courage and will be totally against my core belief as a realist and a fighter. We all win some and lose some in Politics. The loser today could be the winner tomorrow. No condition is permanent in Politics as in real life.

You take a deep breath, recalibrate and move on with your life as the struggle continues until we reach our destination and drop off the Bus of Life when the second coming of Jesus comes or when we are called as brilliantly explained by the Rt. Revd Bishop Timothy Agbeja of the CAC Church of North America and Canada in his powerful eulogy or sermon in the Thanksgiving Service marking the Burial of Dr. and Attorney Evangelist Janet Olusolape Fashakin at the CAC First in the Americas at Cortelyou Road in Brooklyn, New York on October 13, 2024.

I rest my case.