While the world reacts with shock to Trump’s likely surprise win, it must remember that the president-elect is unlikely to implement all the policies he advocated during the election campaign, says former Israeli ambassador to the US Itamar Rabinovich.
“It takes one set of ideas and set of statements to get elected, and a different set of ideas to govern,” he says at an event at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University.
If Trump were actually to follow through on all his proposals, it would “create a degree of international turmoil the world and the US will not be able to deal with,” Rabinovich says.
“We will likely see a serious moderation of some of the policies. No wall will be erected on Mexican border. Muslims will not be prevented from entering the US, and so on. However, there will be changes.”
He says that change “will be dramatic.” And yet, some of these changes will be moderated by the president’s aides and other forces within the administration.
— Raphael Ahren
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