#peterhartcher the ‘wise’ writer from the #smh talks about #trump having a #mandate. I’m not sure if Peter has a clue about American elections but no President, no matter how evil, has a mandate. The electoral system doesn’t have compulsory voting and the President is lucky to get voted in with a majority of the votes. What he has is a congress and a senate that protects his crazy economic destroying cruel decisions. If they are flicked he has nothing.