Howdy Modi- extravaganza of democracy, but is there anything for Indian Americans ?

Howdy Modi- extravaganza of democracy, but is there anything for Indian Americans ?

-          Biplab Pal, 9/22/2019

Indian Americans are one of the most successful and prosperous group on planet earth. Total net wealth of 4M Indian Americans will far exceed the wealth of 99% Indian back home. They played crucial role in IT revolution for both US and India. Today India has a $160B IT industry which feeds 12M middleclass.  This export owes its existence to Indian Americans who found an opportunity in outsourcing and together with Indian entrepreneurs laid the basics of business since 1990s.

I am not a spokesperson of Indian Americans as they are as diverse as they were in home in their political and personal aspiration. However, being a business person whose future and livelihood depends on $160B IT export and someone who regularly visits all the major cities of US and India I get to see the aspiration and frustration of both the countries first hand. As a US citizen, I am also active in local politics and for business in India, I happen to meet Indian politicians on regular basis. This gives me an wide perspective of how both the countries work. And more importantly what works and what doesn’t work in the largest and the most powerful democracy.  Therefore for an event where two of the premier of both the countries share same stage rooting for same future, definitely I should be delighted. But frankly I am not that optimistic because I do see that politicians of both the countries treat Indian Americans as holy cash-cow who would bring more business without giving us what we need to succeed. Yes, we are creating jobs in the both the countries, but it will be fair to say, politicians of US and India so far gave us a lip service. What we wanted, has never been listened or taken cared of adequately. Sadly that is the ground truth. And while both the leaders boosted of their success for their performance, I couldn’t find any clue how Trump or Modi would take initiatives that would help our Indian American community to create more business and jobs that both the leaders wanted.  

Let me start with criticism of Modi of what he has promised for NRI like us and what is the reality on ground in India. Even today he said, he would reform easy of doing business in India. It’s the same old cliché he promised five years back in his gala show in New York. What is the reality? Did you ever try to open a Pvt Company in India ? It takes enormous amount of time if one of the director is  a foreigner. Even if you are having an OCI card, it means nothing to ED ( Enforcement Directive). Next trouble starts with FDI or foreign direct investment. Normally whenever you wire a money for buying equity in Indian firms, that confirmation that you have personally done it must come from a class officer in your foreign bank which he has to communicate using SWIFT code ( Bank to bank secured communication). Else RBI will not accept. I have personally suffered two years of paper works because my banker even didn’t realize what to do! Even after they did it, still RBI said why that was not done in six month !   First of all, in USA, if an Indian invests, all they care about whether money has been wired. In India there is so much of bureaucracy even today, I would never invest in India had I not been Indian.  After I become US citizen in 2011, I found it is one of the worst place to do business as a foreigner. Compared to that, US is still a top destination for FDI because when we form a company in USA, we can do that online within 24 hours and I will have my business account in 48 hours. In India if there is a foreign director, it takes more than 3 months. Of course, even then you have to pay consultants who will “manage” it for you.

Then let’s look at the import to India. If you are in pure software, of course there can’t be any issue. In sensor business, where we regularly import from USA, including GST and import duty, we pay on average between 40-48% . On US side, on import from India, it was 6% earlier but since Indian administration didn’t listen to request from US commerce department for reduced tariff, it is now at 25%. On top of that, due to GST, it is costing us 18% more to produce in India. Overall, Indian import is 50% more expensive after Modi came to power. This has killed many Indian exporters already. It’s no wonder GDP growth in India has come down to 5% from 12%. It’s not a magic but a systematic failure of Modi administration to pay attention to details in the matter of economics. Instead they were more busy in their ideological politics like NRC or Kashmir to please their electorates.

 Amidst the charade and pomposity that has grappled the imagination of a Hindu nation,  Modi or his administration found no time to discuss with their US counterpart to do something so that bilateral trade improves.  On all of these matters, I must say, US administration has conducted more responsibly while they received lukewarm reciprocation from their Indian counterpart.

No wonder, foreign investors have lost confidence in Modi.

Now I will turn to criticism of Trump Government. H1-B visa is vital to this $160B Indian export.  I am also in favor of recruiting local software talents from USA but let face the bitter truth. Our US school system is outdated and they are not producing as many coders as we need.  Besides Indian middleclass does their job in IT because they have very little option of doing anything else that gives them decent salary. Many jobs in IT are so boring, most of the American kids don’t want to do it.  This being the case, we have no option but to get talented coders from India to USA. That process made America the capital of world IT- all most all software products and innovation still happen from USA. But if that is forcefully eliminated, how IT entrepreneurs would do well in a globally competitive market ? H1B visa rejection stands at 42%.  You want Indian Americans to create jobs in USA- but that is not possible without H1B program being reformed. We are all for local talents but even local talents would need grooming from experienced Indian software engineers.

I discussed only short-term issues. There are other long term  structural issues. We are entering into an age of AI driven automation. We need far more talented coders and software engineers than that we needed earlier. Indian school system is still based on old rots.  It has not been reformed.  It is producing BTech in engineering of whom 97% are unemployable.  Modi Govt took no step in reforming engineering education which is badly needed. No wonder, there is no Indian University within top 300.

We can all dance around hailing democracy and its celebration, but hard fact is China is surging ahead based on its vast public education system.  India has fallen far behind and US is also failing to catch up. China must be a wake-up call for all of us-both the nations. Our leaders must do better in public education system.

Buried in pomposity and paraphernalia of Howdy Modi, we the Indian Americans should not forget there are two critical factors that led to our success. We received very high quality public education in India almost free of cost- something that is being destroyed over last two decades by successive Indian Governments. I may be prejudiced but I have seen, talents always come from needy families. They shouldn’t be deprived of quality education or else even our outsourcing business will suffer. Second important thing that happened positively in our life is American capitalism which doesn’t discriminate based on color and embrace merit over color or race.  Sundar Pichai, had he been living in  India would not have dreamed of running an Indian business  empire which is always run by family dynasty. Therefore, if we understand why we succeeded in USA, we must have to protect the very value of American capitalism which is under threat from American socialists and white supremacists. We also have a duty to spread American capitalism and its positive dimensions in India.  India doesn’t have a capitalist infrastructure and Modi did very little to even recognize the issues other than lip servicing. To realize the great potential of India and its people, instead of adulating Modi, we need to constantly pressurize him for more reform of archaic business regulations so that with improved capitalist framework, India should dream of 15T economy and not 5T economy which I doubt they can achieve even in 10 years given such a poor capitalist framework. It’s a high time Modi should think of scrapping IAS, IFS, IPS etc. altogether and instead recruit experienced MBA professionals to run the country.

Having said all the negative sides, I must admit democracy is wonderful and it allows best talents to be the leaders.  They are intelligent people but more often than not, they take decision to please their vote bank. I hope things will change soon. So far so good, I am proud to be an Indian American-I consider myself very fortunate to be born in India and living in United States.

Churchill, the Lucifer behind partition of India **************************

Churchill, the Lucifer behind partition of India
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While celebrating the birth of India, it is difficult to forget the delivery pain-partition of India which resulted in death of two millions. Twenty million people were purged from their aboriginal villages and towns where their forefathers lived for centuries.

Ever since, I started exploring the history of partition and deep communal divide between Hindus and Muslims, I always ended up in three possible hypothesis.

A: You meet a liberal- he will deeply anguish how British divided  India by carefully crafting the feud between the two communities which lived peacefully side by side for centuries. In liberal viewpoint, it was an imperialist design to debilitate formal colonies by keeping the communal conflict alive.

 B: You meet a Hindu Nationalist- he will ask you this question- can any community live in peace with the Muslims? Is there a historical precedence for peaceful coexisting of Muslims with other religious groups ?  Can Muslims live among themselves peacefully ?  He will surely blame the non-inclusive and tribal nature of Islam as a religion.

C: You meet an Islamist-he will raise this question- did Hindus ever embrace them as equal brother? Isn't it true in many of the Hindu households, they won't allow Muslims to enter into their house?  When discrimination and hatred against Muslims is so high in a Hindu majority land, what is the solution for dignity and social progress for the Muslims if they are not given a separate nation ?

 When I prowl through all of these narratives, I could clearly see iota of truth and merit in all of the arguments.

 However, some truths are bigger than others. Although you may be convinced about the British political design of partition, it is difficult to substantiate their role behind the curtain in insinuating the riots following direct action day. I never got this question " factually" answered how and why British planned this partition -as on surface it may look like Muslim league's demand led to the gruesome butchery of India.

 However while exploring role of Franklin D Roosevelt (FDR) in pressurizing Winston Churchill for independence of India, I came across several interesting documents which proves beyond any doubt-real Lucifer behind the partition is none other than Churchill [1]. This racist pig for whom 2.1 million Bengali died in the famine of 1943 is also the mastermind behind  " Making of Jinnah" which led to death of two millions Indians and rape in unimaginable scale.

 And imagine this- in 2002 poll, he has been voted out to be the greatest Briton of all the time. He also won Nobel Prize in literature in 1953 and an honorary citizen of United States in 1963 ( only eight people have been given this honor).

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Before discussing the dialogues between FDR and Churchill which is perhaps the best documents available regarding Churchill's view on India and Hindu, it will be worthwhile to grasp a few aspect of Churchill's personality to understand how he pushed for the partition and why he was sympathetic to Indian Muslims and their demand for separate nation.

Winston Churchill started his career as an army officer in British India Army in 1896. He was involved in action in Anglo-Sudan war and 2nd Boer war in Africa. During first world war, he served in various capacity and in various fronts while failing in all of his assignments. Yet every time he escaped criticism back home using his powerful rhetoric and fiery speech for which he was famous as politician.

During his close association with British India army, he had close relationship with Muslims and Sikhs but for some reasons, he hated native Hindu rulers and Congress. He was quite open that he hates India and Hindu customs are bestial.  On the contrary he had better opinion about Ottoman empire and its aristocracy. For him Arabs & Turks are brave while Hindu rulers are worthless coward.  During his posting in Middle East, he loved to dress like rich Arab royals but perhaps he never liked Indian royal customs.

 In London, his close circle included prominent Muslims - Aga Khan, Baron Headly ( President of London Muslim Society ), Waris Ali ( A London Judge), Firoz Khan Noon ( Later he will become PM of Pakistan ). While Gandhi was a Fakir to him, M A Jinnah was a close friend of Churchill. He despised Hindu leader and agreed with Waris Ali that if British leaves India and if Indian Muslims are left in the hand of majority Hindu rulers,  Muslims will be discriminated and meted with riots only. [2]

 Waris Ali used his connections in India to keep Churchill informed of Muslim opinion on the ground in India, and continually sent Churchill information which Churchill would then use in the House of Commons as evidence of the necessity of British rule. For Instance, on 12 April  1931, Waris Ali wrote to Churchill regarding the Cawnpore Massacre saying that the Cawnpore riots were a “well thought-out […]  programme for […] the terrorisation of the Muslim minority into submission and surrender of their demand for effective safeguards in the future constitution of India”. Within a month Churchill addressed an audience in Kent thus: “Look at what happened at Cawnpore […] A hideous primordial massacre has been perpetrated by the Hindus on the Moslems because the Moslems refused to join in the glorification of the murder of a British policeman.” [2]

In short, he opposed freedom of India on the ground that if Britishers leave, India will be a bloodshed because Hindus and Muslims will fight endlessly. According to him, if power is transferred to Congress, which he deemed as Hindu organization will do no justice to Indian Muslims.  It is clear he was the voice of Jinnah in the House of Commons.  No wonder when he become the PM of Britain, he did everything to ensure Jinnah and his two nation theories succeed because he believed in discrimination of Muslims at the hand of Hindus.

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Now, I will switch back to dialogue between FDR and Churchill.

  US was hotbed of Indian freedom struggle since the foundation of Gadar party by Sohan Singh and Kesar Singh in 1912. Although US authority cracked down the party by 1921 for its fierce anarchism, India league of America was established in 1930 in New York by JJ Singh. India league successfully rallied the mainstream Americans to favor freedom of India and was able to include celebrity like Albert Einstein as one of its sympathizers among many luminaries.  American newspapers were publishing articles by Neheru and it was well known to secretary of States, biggest political issue to address in Asia -  freedom of India.

 Therefore when Churchill rushed to FDR for help in 1940, FDR promptly pushed the issue of independence of India as one of the key topic in Atlantic chapter which was signed between them on 14th August, 1941. Article 3 of the charter guarantees the self-governance of all the races and nations.  However when FDR asked when Churchill should declare a road-map for independence of India, Churchill replied, it will be after winning the war. However on Sept 9th, in house of Commons Churchill clarified article 9 is applicable only to European nations under German occupation!!

 FDR was mad at Churchill because that was never discussed and neither FDR was intended on that direction.  But FDR remained silent as British ambassador to US, assured him that Mr President shouldn't raise any opposition publicly. When Churchill will be visiting in Dec, independence of India will be discussed. FDR was so angry, in Dec he told Churchill point blank that charter is a joke if Britain fails to declare independence of India.  This time Churchill too got angry and told FDR India is the centerpiece of British empire and without it, there will be no empire! Further he mentioned not to stir the pot during the war!

Turn of the events in 1942 in pacific theater, when Japan was sweeping Korea, China, Hongkong, Indochina, Vietnam, Philippines made FDR nervous about India. Several American intelligence agencies were pressuring Roosevelt for assuring independence of India. Reason was multiple.  First,  war resource of India was extremely important to fight in the pacific against Japan. Secondly Japan already declared they would favor independence of India and they would march to liberate India from British rule. That had already created a pro-Japan politics in India. Thirdly Americans needed help from nationalistic leaders of Vietnam, Korea etc. For example, American were fighting against Japanese alongside with Vietkong & Ho Chi Min ( yes same Ho Chi Min against which they would  fight in Vietnam war ).  And there was a trust issue. To bring the trust among the nationalist leaders of Asia who were fighting against Japan, America needs to be shown as liberator of India. This time FDR  increased the gas pedal  on Churchill via two ways-through US ambassador in Britain and US mission in India. He sent his best negotiator to Viceroy Lincelithgo.  First Colonel Johnson and then William Philip. Under American pressure, British war cabinet sent Stafford Cripps to discuss independence of India-which we all know  as Cripps mission. However Churchill wrote to FDR that Indian independence will make it far worse since after Independence India will sink into Hindu-Muslim riots.

    FDR was directly coordinating with Colonel Johnson in Delhi to make sure Cripps mission succeed in granting independence of India. Colonel Johnson knew stake was high and he immediately befriended Neheru and Patel. He was also successful to bring a fruitful  negotiation between Congress and Cripps.

   Churchill was angry and immediately called back Cripps. He thought Cripps must be knowing from the get go, he is leading a "for-show" mission to assuage FDR and American ally. He was not supposed to be successful !!

 This backstabbing by Churchill is the worst thing that happened to India. Because if he would have accepted the proposal, India would emerge as united sovereign nation. There was no partition plan in the proposal.

  Obviously Colonel Johnson was angry and wrote back to FDR about backstabbing of Churchill and his betrayal to both America and India. This time FDR didn't take a tough stance even fully understanding Churchill played a game with him. This was because by then US won battle of Midway destroying all the Japanese Carriers. After the battle of Midway,  Japan was on defensive and US was bombing Japan without any impunity. US needed no help then to push Japan to its shell. Therefore importance of India and thus its independence received much lower priority after it was certain that Japan would be loosing. Although even after this FDR sent William Phillip to  Churchill to discuss independence of India. But Churchill was angry and he did blackmail FDR emotionally stating this was not expected of a friend!

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 If Churchill wouldn't be losing the election in 1946, India stood no chance of Independence in 1947. India would have seen probably more massacre and civil war. This was clear if we look at what Churchill did in his second term from 1951. He was also responsible for massacre of freedom fighters in Kenya during his second tenure. He believed in the glory of empire and imperialism.

    It is difficult to imagine how such a nasty anti-Indian become the best Briton of all the time.

  All I know, Indians must award him as nastiest Briton of all the time for what he has done to India.

Increasing violence in American Politics

When I came to this country in 2001 Feb, economy was doing good-and violence in politics, riots were almost unheard. I remember the guy who was giving me driving lesson in NJ, an unemployed law grad-even he didn't know the name of NJ Governor. It was a time, when political polarization was almost absent.

What happened then since? China joined WTO and started dumping all of their products in USA. By 2005-6, no product made-in-USA can be found in Wallmart. During the same period, thousands of Call Center and customer service jobs have been outsourced to India. Also, thanks to automation, many Americans were losing jobs. And benefit of automation, which is increasing IT jobs didn't to go to American middleclass. Again, it has been outsourced to IT majors in India.

Results of all of these have been devastating on small American towns which relied heavily on manufacturing jobs.  I can bring example of Allentown, a small model town in Pennsylvania which used to be home for many manufacturing units. I used to visit this city for my job in 2001. It was a bustling town then. When I last visited them in 2015, the city has lost much of its manufacturing jobs.  

And when people are deprived of their basic means of living, there will be political consequence. Trump is fallout of that consequence.  We, Indians are unfortunate victim of the situation now.

Obviously American politics is no more about civilized mainstream politicians of yesteryear. It is becoming violent and polarized. Since I have grown up in India, specially in WB, violent politics is nothing new to me. But unfortunately, I never ever imagined, I had to see the same in my adopted country.

Inauguration Speech by Donald Trump

If his inauguration speech is anything to believe, it is quite clear, Trump is focused on delivering his promise-practice of protectionism to create and save American jobs. Curb on illegal immigration. Eradicate Islamic radicalism which is another cancer of the civilization.

Right now, we have Putin in Russia, Modi in India and Trump in United States. Give and take, they all follow a similar pattern. A mixed brand of politics of nationalism, protectionism, manufacturing focused economy, tough stance against Islamic radicals and dilution of liberal values prevailing in the name of political correctness.

Now, first thing to consider, why liberal America is such a bad loser in all of this. Think what happened when Bernie lost hands down against Hillary by huge popular vote. They came up with all sorts of conspiracy theories by DNC etc. Left liberals conveniently ignored and forgot, Democratic party is a coalition of vested interest groups of labors, teachers, minorities etc. and among those groups, Hillary had far better support. In Maryland Primary Hillary won by 68-28 margin. In most of the states, where there exists a proper closed primary by Democratic card holders, Bernie lost badly. Yes, left liberals refused to unite under Hillary.

Next, I will reflect on Hillary campaign. To begin with she outsourced to wrong campaign manager, John Podesta. By all fair means he is incapable. Anyone like me who travels in the rural belts of Pennsylvania, knew well that Trump will carry the Rust Belt. Almost every house in this Belt was turning a proud Trump supporter by placing "Make America Great Again Placard" in their yard . Sign was quite ominous. We were also frustrated with Obamacare which almost tripled my insurance pay while cutting the benefit by half. It may have worked for 30M poor Americans but that was at the expense of raising insurance premiums for other 270M. Anger against Obamacare was so visible. How could you not take it seriously? Instead she went on political hyperbole of feminism. What was the point? Will a single feminist ever vote for Trump? They would vote for her anyway. So strategy for Hillary would have been to focus with American working class who were disappointed with Clinton because he initiated China into GATT. Her campaign was a totally misled strategy and out of touch with common Americans. Trump did far better in getting connected to common Americans.

Even then when Trump was elected, left liberals defied all the democratic decorum to claim he is not a legitimate president! By defying a sound democratic process by which Hillary won nomination or Trump won presidency, you only prove yourself a lunatic and not an activist. Moreover, you distance yourself further from the common people who voted for Trump because beyond any reasonable doubt he exposed political corruption of DC.

So what would be political discourse for the next? We have to wait and see what Trump delivers for the American people. If he fails to deliver, American people will throw him out. But you do not throw him out before he is given a chance when such is the desire of the democracy.

Trump Cabinet is oligarchy of Billionairs. There is a good and bad side of it. On better sides, they come with executive experience of running business and people. Execution is expected to be better. This was the worst problem of Obama administration-it was extremely poor on execution because mostly ideologues run it. On bitter side-they are out of touch with middle-class hard working Americans-will they think of them? We don't know answer yet. But if Trump can force them to deliver for common and poor people, they can do it better coming from their experience.

And then there is too much of ado of Islamic radicalism that Trump is speaking about. I don't see how Trump would be able to do things differently. Dollar is a reserve currency of the world, because Saudis would give oil only in dollar -in return they earned the protection for their monarchy. How will Trump reign Saudi dollar which is breeding Wahabi Islam when dollar needs house of Sauds ?

Trump sent wrong signals so far

What is the political situation now in USA? Clear answer is nobody knows including Trump. WP writes " Trumpworld is a place where there are dueling centers of power, where actual motives are opaque and where only those related by blood or marriage are ever truly trusted and invulnerable".

So by all signs and signatures, country has voted to trust a businessman to lift their economic condition which is steadily sliding in United States. Voters have registered their loss of faith in career politicians. Question is-can Trump turn around this country using his business acumen ?

In all fairness, he can do it well if he desires to. He needs to hire more businessmen like Romney into his cabinet. But by hiring people like Steve Bannon and Jeff Sessions, he sent wrong signals so far. Bannon and Session are more interested in a white nation than doing business across the isles.

Trump is right when he said, only way to move forward is to create more and more new business in USA. But that can't happen without immigrants in USA. Nearly 2/3rd of the new technology companies in USA have been created by immigrants. Appointing anti-immigrant nuts like Bannon and Sessions wont help boosting US business. Cracking down and deportation of convicted illegal immigrants are fine but rest of the illegal immigrants could have been used in much better productive way if there is a way to grant them a sort of work permit even if that doesn't need to be categorized as green card so that path to citizenship is blocked to be fair with legal immigrants who have been waiting for such a long time for a green card. Middle path can always be sorted out to balance concerns of both sides.

Trump and education of my children

Most fearful thing, that I was apprehending of Trump administration had to do with education. My son has been fortunate to have his primary education under Obama administration which was raising the school education for American children consistently through common core- a national level standardization for school education. Trump wants to dump it because he said, common core had issues- which is partially true because I found teachers are not prepared well for it. Only students who have well educated parents were benefiting. For rest it was not making much difference partially because teachers were not trained well for new syllabus. This is one of the many cases, where Obama had fantastic good idea but as his signature trademark, execution was poor. But nevertheless, for families like us, Obama's education policy was doing great for my son.

Trump raised his kids well and so far whatever, I learned about him he does have keen interest in upbringing of children in very strict manner. By replacing common core, Trump wants to get back to original days in which a school district will be formulating the school syllabus. It used to be that way and American school education was sliding down. Reason is simple. School districts have limited budget. They can't afford experts that department of education can have. They can't build the software that department of education build to evaluate the progress of the students. Even most of the decent republicans like Jeb Bush wanted to continue with common core. It is also because of common core, Saas like IXL emerged to evaluate progress with the kids automatically. Despite its poor execution, common core is a great idea.

Now it is difficult to say what Trump will do. One good thing about him - he is smart and open minded to learn what works and what doesn't. He changes position based on what he "thinks" is good. He already rolled back on Obamacare. Hope he will role back on common core as well by keeping its key provision while allowing the school district to do more complimentary education with common core.

I am hoping best for the America's future. Obama had good ideas and objectives, but his execution is pathetically poor. He is not a good executive. Trump on the other hand is much better at execution. Therefore it will be best for the country if Trump keeps some of the successful ideas of Obama while improving it with better execution. I think that is going to happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z73H5urfx-c

Presidential Election 2016 : Success of Trump or failure of Clinton campaign ?

The way I am looking at Presidential Election 2016

1. There are four major issues : A) Declining income of American middle class B) Job loss due to outsourcing & bad trade agreement like NAFTA C) Burden of Student loan D) Escalated healthcare premium due to Obamacare

2. Anything else like racism, anti-immigration rant etc are the after effect of declining income of traditional American middle class.

3. Unless A-D are addressed properly, racism will only escalate.

4. You can't stop globalization by politics. You can't stop job loss due to automation by politics. Protectionism will kill American economy further. But people do need relief. So only way out is to invest on education of American people and research.

5. People love to think protectionism will save their job and income. It won't. Only way to save their job is to create more opportunities in America by research and innovation and reskilling American population.

6. Hillary Clinton is on right track when she is talking about boosting manufacturing by research and innovation. Trump's protectionism is a failed idea. Also he doesn't have a plan to reduce burden of Student loan.

7. But there are issues. Clinton has lost a lot of trust by being associated with dubious people. Common people are not trusting career politician anymore and Trump is taking advantage of common anger.

8. Also when I looked at both the candidates, Trump is more grounded than Clinton. Trump clearly understood mistakes of some of the trade deals while Clinton simply ignored them. This may prove costly to Clinton.

9. Trump campaign is based on anger and emotion. He has moved a force by hook or by crook. Clinton failed to move her base. Her campaign made very little effort to organize volunteers, while Trump managed more volunteering force for him.

10. Clinton's election strategy is also not well thought out. She is still trying get women voters which is useless now-because she already maximized that option. She needed to assure on two aspects and she has not done well on that A. How she will change Obamacare B. How she will protect American jobs.

Overall-it is a very close election and much of it is failure of Clinton campaign than success of Trump.