Obamacare will be gone before the end of January. They voted to repeal it 50+ times under Obama; they're sure as hell not going to stop once Trump is sworn in. They have *NEVER* however, so much as started to suggest any replacement; all they want to do is vacate the law entirely and let the insurance companies do as they will. Instead, we'll revert to the points I listed in my post, and I'm pretty damned certain that insurance rates will NOT go down.
Wish I could remember the guy's name, from this morning's interview. He claimed to be the first Republican (senator?) to come out in support of Trump, back in February I believe, and said that their new system was partially planned already and would allow people to tailor their healthcare to suit their needs and would make provision for people with pre-existing health problems. It sounded great, but like you said, I imagine it'll favor the insurance companies.
The wall isn't going to happen, but he'll convince the Trumpstaffel that that's Mexico's fault; keeping them fired up about those evil, uncooperative Mexicans is going to be a priority for him.
I totally forgot he could blame Mexico. Not saying he will, but since the Democrats have been neutered, effectively, he's going to need a scapegoat for why this wall won't happen.
Paris Accords? The US will have withdrawn from those by June, just like how Bush immediately withdraw us from the Kyoto Protocols immediately after HE took office.
Yeah, I see that coming. Especially since he's publically said that climate change is made up by the Chinese.
I expect Roe v Wade will be overturned after Trump makes his second SCOTUS appointment. (Scalia was already for overturning, so his replacement will be a wash.)
This is the frightening one, if it happens. I can't imagine the stress some women are going to be under.
We're going to see a lot of ultra-right-wing legislation freeing corporations to do whatever they want, whenever they want proposed by the GOP; any that makes it past the Democrats (and most of it will) will pretty much be guaranteed to be signed.
Never understood why so many people were saying that Clinton was just helping big business but Trump would somehow be a Robin Hood character and fight for the little man. As Burt Reynolds said, this is a guy who was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple. Nothing he does is going to harm his own business (for obvious reasons) even if it would benefit the country as a whole.
I doubt he'll even try to officially overturn the 1st, 5th, or 14th Amendments, but he can weaken them by limiting enforcement. Until he has a second SCOTUS appointee in place, I don't see him successfully implementing his 'No Muslims' policy. He will certainly try, and the ACLU will take that to court pretty much instantly, and the current court would never allow it (Kennedy leans right but isn't a full-on conservative). Remember he's on record as saying that newspapers like the New York Times have too many rights, and he has pushed for our libel laws to be more like the pre-reform British libel laws, meaning that libel would no longer require falsehood, just negativity.
I had to Google exactly what each of those amendments mean, but I think to get away with a some of what he's promised, he'd have to at least weaken them. I don't know enough about the process for this.
If he doesn't try to shut down the EPA entirely, he will at the very least ensure its hands are tied so that it can't actually do anything. He won't have a problem increasing fossil fuels at the expense of clean energy - most of the inducements away from the former toward the latter have been via EPA regulations and executive orders, and he'll be able to undo them with a wave of his pen.
Like I mentioned, he doesn't even think climate change is happening, why would he need to protect the environment? Plus, there's no money in doing it.
And like I said, considering his immaturity and petulance every time someone does something he doesn't like, I fear both his reaction the first time another world leader says something mean about him, and how he intends to resolve the fight with ISIS.
This one is risky. However, Putin appears to know how to play to his ego, so I don't think Russia will be much of a problem. If it turns out his much touted secret plan to get rid of ISIS actually works, I'll be the first to applaud him. However, I tend to think it'll be more along the lines of hiring Bill Gates to stop their internet working.
