For Eight Years US had a Government 'Actively Harming It on Purpose'

As the fuss around the surprise result of the US presidential vote seems to be tapering down, experts are now busy forecasting the first 100 days of a Trump presidency. Political commentator Karin McQuillan told Radio Sputnik why she thinks the Republican will "go down as an extremely effective and popular president."

"I am extremely enthusiastic and optimistic," Karin McQuillan, a political commentator for the popular conservative website American Thinker told Radio Sputnik.

"I think there are so many things which could be done that would be constructive and that would be easy, because for the last eight years we've had a government that has been actively harming America on purpose," she explained.

"They have been against business, the prosperity of Americans," she added.

Just unleashing the energy sector is going to be huge, McQuillan noted. Cutting back on corporate taxes so that American companies are more competitive is not a complex policy but it will be repatriating almost USD 2 trillion which are currently abroad and which American multinationals have not reinvested in America due to the financial penalties involved, she explained.

"If the US is able to overcome it, it will have so much capital investment, new high-paying, good jobs. People will see immediate results and Trump will go down as an extremely effective and popular president," she concluded.

Karin McQuillan also commented on the attempts by the mainstream media to demonize Donald Trump during his presidential campaign.

This has been a pattern which had been going on for a long time, she told Sputnik. Every Republican candidate has been compared to Hitler. But with Trump they went beyond that, she said. They called all the Republicans, all Trump's supporters, fascists, members of the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) and racists.

"It completely backfired on them because ordinary Americans know that they are good decent people, that these labels don't fit and they are sick and tired of it," she noted.

However it was time to say no, she further explained.

Past Republican candidates have been cowed by the media, the political commentator told Sputnik.

"However Trump is the first person who has had so much media experience himself, and he is fearless, he is a fighter and he brought up the fighting spirit in his followers who stopped talking to the polls, their neighbors as they did not want to be called names but within themselves they were resisting. And it showed up in the elections results," she finally stated.