
Ok, so you never thought it could happen again but it damned well did! I woke up to the announcement today (we’re six hours ahead of EST) that Donald Trump was going to run for president again! I lived in the US in 2016 when he ran. Nobody that I knew thought he would win. Hell, we didn’t even think he would defeat Jeb Bush for the Republican nomination. Then when it looked like he would, we all said that was great because once he had to face Hillary he would certainly lose…
Then that night, I was watching the election results with a group of friends and we started seeing state after state going to Trump, and Florida (I lived in Florida at the time) going in the same direction. My friends all thought that once the count was finished in Broward and Miami-Dade Counties that Hillary would be declared the winner. But that did not happen. Needless to say, we all know what happened.
Now I remember that a lot of people during that election, did not vote. I heard many were not really in favour of Hillary and some just were too apathetic to get up and do their civic duty. The lack of support for the Democratic candidate gave Trump the push forwards.
I know, because of the clear and unquestionable results of 2020, that the majority of citizens of the US do not want Trump back in office. They demonstrated it by electing Joe Biden, a good man, an honest man, but a very old man, too old to face the stress and the difficulties of running such a nation. But it had to be because another term for Trump was just unthinkable.
So, I no longer live in the US. I have come back to my own country (Spain), but I’ve many good friends there and even family and I don’t want them to go through another four years of the disaster that Trump brought to that country. But yet I wonder… Are people going to do what they did in 2016 and just not vote, or what they did in 2020, which guaranteed that a man like Trump would be out of office?
Like I said, I don’t live there anymore, but…
Best of luck…
Valencia, Spain, 16 NOV 2022, Francis Bravo Cabrera
(Written while listening to Mathias Eick Jazz Band, live at Jazz Baltica 2015)

















