TONY LEON: No mention of Africa in US election, but it will still strongly affect us
SA is closely aligned to two ‘illiberal countries’, China and Russia, flagged by the likely next US administration as a danger to US interests
In 2014, two years before the last US presidential election, Lord Robin Renwick, former British ambassador to SA and the US, published a book. Time has not smiled kindly on the slim work Ready for Hillary?, and even less so on its subtitle: Portrait of a President in Waiting.
Of course, only with “the lordly perspective of retrospective clairvoyance” can one mock all the Washington DC insiders — of whom under the presidency of Bill Clinton the author was one — who called the 2016 election wrong. And, in defence of the pundits and pollsters who agreed with the Renwick view, the actual result of that election did see Clinton defeat Donald Trump by 2.9-million popular votes...
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