For all those Americans who wake up screaming at the thought of four more years Donald Trumpall is not lost.

The world will (almost certainly) continue to turn after 2024 presidential election And The Simpsons will (certainly) still be on the air.

There’s no point running for the hills, because the people already living there most likely voted for Trump and the country’s homeless have already headed West to discover that you have to be almost as rich as Elon Musk to afford a house in the Democratic Republic of California.

So you might like to rejoice in these five reasons why a second Trump in the White House might not be so bad after all.

1. We survived the first

Do you remember how you felt in 2016? Did I really just witness the guy who pretended to fire people The apprentice beat Hillary Clinton to become the most powerful person on the planet? Should we sell our house now and move to Guam? But you didn’t sell your house and, in fact, its value probably increased.

Obama would claim to have left the economy in good shape, but then Biden would have to admit the same thing in 2020, right? We even lived through a pandemic, and given that most people probably ignored Trump’s more outlandish remedies, the United States didn’t fare much better or worse than countries led by real men of state.

True, his idea of ​​foreign policy focused more on strange “friendships” with Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin, but no buttons were pushed. We were there again in 2021.

We may still have been embarrassed that the country of JFK and Barack Obama chose Donald J. Trump as president. But we also voted for Richard Nixon, so go figure. And the Cubs won the World Series in 2016 for the first time since 1908. I didn’t see that one either.

2. At least there won’t be a civil war

Admit it, you’ve been considering putting in a shopping cart those tickets to the Christmas concert in town that you’ve been looking forward to for months. There were so many combative speeches during the Trump campaign in the weeks leading up to the election that companies that install bars on windows had to clean up their act.

Now our inner cities can go back to gentrifying the poor and driving them out of existence. Police may remove security at the Capitol for January. The Democrats are not going to stage an insurrection. There will be no racing on Viking helmets. The people wearing them will already be inside.

3. He might even stop a war or two

Trump is actually good at stopping wars, or at least not starting them. What interests him is making America great again, and not elsewhere. “I saved a great war. I saved a few,” he said during his first term, referring to Iran and another conflict that no one seems really sure about.

There is no doubt that he will call his friend Vladimir Putin and suggest that he put aside his quarrels with Ukraine, without making kyiv a suburb of Belgorod. He promised during the campaign that he could do it in 24 hours. Its policy is “peace through strength,” although few have a clearer idea of ​​what that means. At least he remembers which is which between Putin and Zelensky, unlike a certain other president. Zelensky certainly knows who Trump is; he congratulated him via

Trump is a strong supporter of Israel, but has been impatient with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his dealings with Hamas. Leaders on both sides will be nervously awaiting his next thoughts on the conflict, and the Palestinians even more so.

4. He can go where no president has gone before (lately)

Donald Trump shares with Elon Musk a fascination with space travel and will likely continue the trend back to exploration that he began during his first term with the creation of the US Space Force and the rebuilding of US Space Command and of the National Space Council.

He could well revive NASA’s program to send astronauts to the Moon, presenting it as a space race against China rather than Russia. He’ll naturally take all the credit, but that might just be a small price to pay to make space travel cool again.

5. It’s the economy, stupid

James Carville used this term to help elect Bill Clinton and Trump has often used this sentiment, even the phrase, to explain why it is necessary for all Americans to reinstate him as captain of the nation’s industries.

He will point to the surge in stock prices and strengthening of the dollar as his victory was announced as proof that he is already turning around an economy that he said was grappling with a cost-of-living crisis under Biden.

Trump will seek to accelerate growth, boost real incomes and employment. Any stimulus measures consisting of tax cuts and erecting trade barriers could boost profits on Wall Street and Trump will argue that the fallout will boost businesses across the board, although that remains to be seen. Trump is a good businessman, at least that’s what he keeps telling us.

So there you go. It’s a new beginning. A new beginning. And if that doesn’t work, I heard a lot of good things about Puerto Rico last week.

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