Donald Trump’s victory has clearly caused a lot of pain anger to too many people, especially the political elite.
They have been gob-smacked. And they have no idea what to expect next.
Few tears will be shed for the elite losers around the world.
They have had easy for far too long.
From early on after he announced he wanted to make America great again, the same elite right across the world dismissed him as a clown.
They hated his language, which to be fair was often brazen and brash.
But what they hated more was the fact that they considered him an outsider.
Until he won against predictions of every poll and every political pundit, very few wanted to listen to him, much less take him seriously.
Having won against their expectations, the same people then moved on to try to explain why he had won. It was nothing more than an act of self-justification.
They have not bothered to explain to us why in their predictions they got everything so wrong.
Now the very same people (who have so badly misled us so many times before) are telling us why Trump’s presidency is going to be a disaster.
Unashamedly, led by same pollsters who told the world that Hillary Clinton was going to win with a landslide are saying Trump is the least likeable president to arrive in the white House since polls began.
Do pollsters want us to take them seriously?
In my eyes pollsters are some of the most discredited professionals in the world.
Last year pollsters told us that the British were going to vote to stay in Europe.
And it did not happen.
As they were still smarting from that huge embarrassment they quickly moved to join economists in predicting that a vote to leave Europe would lead to the collapse of the British economy within a few months.
That too has not happened.
In fact all indicators are pointing to the direction that the British economy has strengthened since the vote to leave Europe.
Now that same group, taking a cue from the intelligence services is saying Trump might have won because the Russian Government supported him because once in the white House he will become a Russian puppet.
Now that is really silly.
It might well be true that Russia tried to influence and manipulate the election results of the United States.
But that Donald Trump won has never been an item of doubt.
He won fairly and squarely ÔÇô as provided for by the American laws.
Hillary Clinton has lost. And her fanatical supporters across the world should accept that as an established truth in history.
Polls and econometric projections are of themselves not a bad thing.
But it would be a lie to say they are a substitute for human emotion.
Trump is a product of human emotion.
Thus his ascendance has defied all polls and all expert econometrics.
Around 2008 the whole world was crazy about a youthful African-American senator called Barack Obama, who only a few months not many had ever heard about.
Eight years on, many of those same people who cheered him into the white House cannot wait to see him disappear from their television screens.
Obama, to be fair did not create Donald Trump and the rise of similar politicians across the world.
But Obama played a key role in the rise of such politicians.
Trump is a product of the grievances felt by millions across the world who had hoped that Obama was going to address their plight only for him to be derailed by an obsession with eccentric politics and textbook economics.
Pollsters will once again deny it, but indications are that France and possibly Germany could in the next few months fall within the clutches of a Trump-like politician. It’s all about human emotion.
Taking on Trump, and predicting an Armageddon even before he took office was always going to be counterproductive.
It only hardened the resolve of his multitude of supporters, who feel that that the elite across the globe have made the world a miserable place for the weak.
Trump, we have to be fair is not the only product of such grievances. Nor is he the most abrasive. That title should go to Nigel Farage who is by far the most recognizable international and most articulate public face of such grievances.
But it is because of the unique position that America occupies as the most successful important and most successful country in the history of mankind that Trump is all of a sudden sold as founder of the unfolding new world order.
In Botswana for example, too many people have been left behind and left out of the economic prosperity that we often hear about.
The economic disparity between the rich and poor, the extent of poverty, especially in the rural areas, the number of poor people vis-à-vis the wealthy, as well as wage variances are just too glaring to miss the attention of any establishment politician.
The ease with which Trump defeated a string of establishment politicians backed by their elite and the media is the continuation of a revolution sweeping across the globe.
And there is no way that Botswana will be immune to it.
On Friday we watched as Trump became president of the most powerful nation the world has ever known.
Contrary to all predictions the world did not come to an end.
Pollsters, like their economic and political pundit cousins have once again been proven wrong.
Trump, we have to keep reminding his detractors, is not a saint and certainly not an angel.
He has never claimed to be.
He has too many human flaws. A leaked footage leaked two weeks before American elections proved just that.
It was timely released so as to lose him an election.
The opposite was the result.
For far too long the world has supported those claiming to be saints only to be led astray.
