By: Dylan Weinman
1/20/16
Trump is at it again, and this time he is taking the media by storm from his proposal that the United States should ban all Muslim immigration coming into the nation. Although most Americans see that this plan of action is not the most rational, there is a scary perspective to take into account here. A poll issued on Vox.com stated that 25% of Americans support Trump’s view on preventing Muslims to enter the country. Out of the 318 million people that currently live in the United States, an estimated 79.5 million people take this view of Islamophobia.
Let’s take into mind the amount of support Trump has acquired over the run of his ongoing campaign. If you were to take into account the 79.5 million Americans that hold this view, you would have to compare it to a well-stocked group of people to complete this analogy. The current estimated population of New York City is 8.59 million people. That covers all the way from Staten Island in the southwest, to Queens which is located in the east. In order to put a mark on Trump’s support, you would have to multiply the population of New York City ten times. That’s 10 cities worth of political gain that backs up most, if not all of the views of Donald Trump. Can you imagine what he could do with that much power?
If one should have that power, there should be a natural reaction to do the thing that offers the most in terms of stability. If this man is claiming to do so much in terms of closing off the borders to foreign nations even before his potential presidency began, then who knows what he will propose if he ends up in office. Donald Trump is currently leading in 1st place on the GOP candidates, if we are to place the title of president in the hands of this man, then he should provide improved decisions, or at the very least, improved justification of his actions.
