Modi got a second term-what Trump should have done?
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The French general Napoleon had said “when you are facing multiple enemies powerful than you, then put your army in the central position and fight them one after the other”. In this article we will today discuss how this strategy applies to both Modi and Trump.
Both Modi and Trump came to power with the mission to break the status quo and eliminate the entrenched politico-economically powerful groups whose very existence was harming their own nations.
Lets understand Modi’s mission and how he navigated it:
When Modi got elected, he was facing entrenched groups who made money from some of the items listed below:
What Modi did right here, he did not take on all the above groups at once. He took on them in a piecemeal manner. He reformed the items #1 to #5 listed above in his first term:
In the second term Modi did the following. He is essentially taking care of items #6 – #13 of the first list.
Had Modi tried to do all reforms in his first term, all the lobbies would have turned against him and defeated him. For e.g., in his 1st term he even increased the MSP which kept the farm lobby happy but struck them hard in his second term. After the farm protests subside, I my opinion, he should act against the underworld influence in Bollywood(item #12) and take steps to eliminate dynastic regional parties(item #13) – the first step here is to make Congress dump the Gandhis. If Congress becomes democratic, all other regional parties will also become democratic. We need regional parties, but not the entrenched dynasties.
Lets now look and Analyze Trump’s actions: Before Trump came to power.
After he came to power he took steps to control all of the above. Due to this, he created many enemies who wanted him out of power unlike Modi. Modi took on his enemies one after other, not in one go. What Trump should have ideally done is: take up #1 and #2 in his first term and leave #3 and #4 for his second term. He would have surely won had he acted in a piecemeal manner.
And, we are seeing after Biden winning elections, China has signed RCEP, trade deal with EU. Oil prices have started increasing and I fear he will successfully undo many good work Trump has done for US.
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