Donald Trump Is Elected President

On the contrary. If it weren't for the electoral college, we'd be governed, in effect, by a handful of coastal mega-cities. Whole states would have a voice equivalent to a rounding error.

The Presidency wasn't intended to be democratic - that's what the House of Representatives is for. Moreover, the Presidency has less power than people work themselves up to believe.

What can Silicon Valley do to make America great again?

- There will be higher tariffs for China imports. The US needs to make more of its own stuff. Start planning on moving manufacturing to the US for sales in the US. Don't use Shentzen as much. Plan on exporting to China, and expect some help from the Government if China's government gives you problems. The US needs to get its imports and exports balanced.

- The wall will be built. It will need sensors. The IoT crowd needs to develop better sensors than the overpriced crappy ones from the last attempt in that direction.

- Better detection of illegal aliens is necessary. One of the biggest source of illegal immigrants is visa overstayers. For those, pictures are available from when they entered the US. Social media must be searched for them. Surveillance cameras need to be connected to cloud systems which recognize them. Police cars need very high definition cameras and face recognition to find those people so they can be deported. Deep learning systems will be needed to decide if a likely face match is worth investigation. With good automation, people will only be hassled once. Then they're either known as legal or on their way to deportation.

- E-Verify, the online system for verifying eligibility to work in the US, needs to be made available as a mobile app for employers. Pictures of documents, faces, and fingerprints should be used rather than typing in info. It should be possible to onboard a new hire in less than a minute.

- The immigration system is too paper-oriented and too slow. It needs to be online and fast. This will speed up deportations.

- Labor-intensive operations in farming need to be automated. The technology exists for automated picking of most fruits and vegetables, but the demo-level hardware is too slow, too expensive, and too fragile. That gear needs to be brought up to production level. Look for financing for farmers from the Department of Agriculture. This will reduce demand for low-paid illegals.

- Commercial cleaning needs to be automated. The Roomba was just the first step. There's still no good commercial-grade floor cleaning robot. The janitor industry is ready for a major downsizing.

There are opportunities here waiting to be seized. Get busy!

I see a lot of comment saying "the USA cannot do this x,y,z because we don't have oil money to back it". USA is in the top three oil producers now at 10 million barrels a day. Yes even that won't cover the total cost for free health care or free education, but that is still a huge amount of money. More importantly, the amount of money the US government has wasted could have paid for the above. Trillions of dollars have been burned on Quantitative Easing and other ridiculous stimulus. And the result was over capacity in oil production and debt that can never be repaid. Instead of hundreds of billions burned, the US government could have given every unemployed individual a whole new education.

We're all fucked now!!

> Honestly I think the democrats should do the best the sabotage him and make sure everything he does fails.

I don't think this is necessary. With Obama, his policies were ultimately shaped, designed and compromised to benefit centrist to left-leaning voters, and so he was sharply opposed by the right and extreme right. With Trump, his policies will be ultimately shaped, designed and compromised to benefit Trump, so it is far from clear that this will give advantage to any class of voter at all.