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‘Trump’ lessons for the next Kenyan president

US president Donald Trump.

The incredible post-election events taking place across the Atlantic Ocean are mind-boggling. It is most unbelievable that the spectre of an ex-president refusing to concede — or as Donald Trump might actually do, refusing to vacate office — can take place in the mighty USA! Isn’t this the very country where the rest of the world has long derived its global liberty and democratic standards? How are the mighty fallen!

In his four short years at the Oval Office, Trump has upended the world’s conventional morality and order by trashing time-tested American values, reversing gains painstakingly achieved through years of racial and gender struggles, breaching longstanding international protocols and pacts, and repudiating science. He has also relentlessly fanned the embers of racism.

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