In December 2015, Bloomberg listed several the worst case scenarios of 2016 — including Trump’s presidency and Brexit. Given that two of those scenarios occurred, they made a list of pessimistic events for 2017, and it reads like a Trump supporter’s wet dream.
First and foremost these aren’t predictions as much as they are worst case scenarios, and just because they come true doesn’t mean they turn out to be bad things. For instance Bloomberg said that if Trump won that gold would rise in value and the dollar would tumble, the opposite came true.
Being a website that values globalism, here are a list of events that could come true in 2017 that they would find horrifying and Trump supporters would celebrate:
1.Trump’s popularity surges, leading to an economic stimulus plan passed by the Republican Congress. The 45th President signs executive orders reversing Obama’s legacy which leads to protests mostly in California, leading the resistance against the billionaire.
2.Germany and Putin make peace and Russia stops interfering in the affairs of the E.U. and the United States. In exchange, the Russians gain more dominance over Ukraine, Belarus, and Syria (which they already dominate). Defense contractors lose big time because the E.U. doesn’t buy arms, and the Cold War is really over.
3.Europe moves right with the election of Marine Le Pen in France, Geerts Wilders in the Netherlands, and Beppe Grillo in Italy. Both Angela Merkel and Theresa May are unable to adapt to the fall of the E.U. and resign from office. The the passport-free Schengen Area is dissolved ending the free movement of people within the E.U.
4.Trump pulls out of NAFTA, builds the wall, deports millions of illegal immigrants, and taxes remittances from foreign workers.
Bloomberg’s writers fear that the growth of nationalism and the rejection of globalism will lead to more nuclear powers, future crisis, and more conflicts. That’s not necessarily true and unfortunately for them, the internationalism of the Obama and Bush presidencies didn’t serve the American people.
