No matter which party wins, the rich will flee because America will be so politically divided- It already is. So is Canada
No matter who wins the election, experts expect ‘a significant number’ of rich Americans to flee the country
Why would they leave if Trump won? The Harris campaign has repeatedly claimed Trump is all for the rich. I’m confused.
Advisors for the rich say no matter which side wins, they expect an increase in applications post-election. Citizenship-by-investment programs have been around for some time now, but gained traction during the early pandemic as rich people looked to retrain their mobility during lockdown. Now, political division is fueling the business for second passports.
An obscure town that seems to be an election bellwether
The First Official Results of the 2024 Presidential Elections Are Bad News for Kamala Harris
The first election day votes from the New Hampshire township of Dixville Notch have rolled in, and Vice President Kamala Harris is already at more of a disadvantage this year than her former running mate, President Joe Biden, in 2020.
In a time-honored tradition, the unincorporated township of Dixville Notch, located along the US-Canada border, opened polling at midnight on election day, allowing its six registered voters to cast the first election day ballots. The voters consist of four registered Republicans and two independents, reported POLITICO.
The township voted for Biden unanimously in 2020. In fact, former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was able to score four votes from the township in 2016, leaving Trump only two. However, the vote is split this year: Harris and former President Donald Trump are exactly tied.
In January, the same six registered voters unanimously voted for former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley in the Republican primary.
Lastly– How a second Trump presidency could reshape the world
If Trump wins this election, the world might never be the same.
The results aren’t in yet, but if Donald Trump ends up winning the 2024 presidential election and regaining the presidency, he could radically reshape international politics.
Trump has made very clear on the campaign trail that he believes major changes to US foreign policy are necessary: “We have been treated so badly, mostly by allies … our allies treat us actually worse than our so-called enemies,” Trump told the audience at a September campaign event in Wisconsin. “In the military, we protect them and then they screw us on trade. We’re not going to let it happen anymore.”
Those aren’t empty promises. Presidents have wide latitude on foreign policy and can enter or nix many international agreements unilaterally.
“It really does vary, agreement to agreement, in terms of what the exit criteria are, but there are very few where a congressional approval for withdrawal is required,” Jennifer Kavanagh, senior fellow and director of military analysis at Defense Priorities, told Vox.
In his first term, Trump pursued what he called an “America First” foreign policy, which saw him withdraw from major international agreements, launch a trade war with China, verbally antagonize allies, and attempt complex negotiations with several of the US’s adversaries.
This campaign season, he has promised to continue attempts to dramatically alter or otherwise hamper international agreements, including the NATO security alliance, in ways that could fundamentally weaken the US’s place in the global order.
Of Trump’s stated foreign policy positions, his planned protectionist trade policy would likely be the most immediately damaging to Americans; his proposed tariff increases would spark a global trade war and drive up prices for American consumers. In the longer term, his ideas about the US role in international affairs could erode US diplomacy and undermine institutions like NATO and the UN. That could have lasting effects on the geopolitical landscape, much as his first-term foreign policy decisions did.
Trump’s isolationist first administration, briefly explained
During his first term, from 2017 to 2021, Trump decided to withdraw the US from multiple international agreements, including the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), often called the Iran deal. That agreement, negotiated in 2015 under President Barack Obama, essentially eased US sanctions on Iran in exchange for curtailing its nuclear program and allowing greater international oversight of it.
I covered Trump’s presidency at my other site- His policies did not differ greatly from other American leaders. Ending the JCPOA only enabled the US and Israel to make ever more outrageous claims against Iran, that could not be checked. In the end the loss of oversight would make it easier for team US/Israel, together, to justify an attack Iran.