Donald Trump is a United States
presidential candidate while David Cameron is the sitting Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom. Both politicians were born I well off and affluent families
that set the stage for business in Trump’s case and a thriving political career
for David Cameron. Trump was born in 1946 to a real estate developer in New
York where he also worked for his father’s company and later joined it (D'Antonio, 76). Upon taking control of the company in
1971, he rebranded the company to bear his name building himself a solid
business empire after that. David Cameron on the other hand as born in 1966 to
a stockbroker father named Ian Donald Cameron, who was a retired and the mother
was the daughter of Sir William Mount. His grandfather was Alexander Geddes,
who built the famous Blairmore indicating a sense of affluence in the early
lives of the politicians. It is arguable that the social status and social
backgrounds of the families of the two politicians played a significant role in
their success. On their political party affiliations, Trump is a Republican
while Cameron is a conservative (The Commentator).
Ideologically, membership to the two sides means that they are relatively more
moderate and agree on reducing the size of the government. They also agree on
decreasing the government regulation on a lot of issues although the
Republicans are much more firm in the issues than the conservatives.
Both Donald Trump and David Cameron
have a moderation stance on the issue of abortion. Abortion being legal in the
United Kingdom by a move by parliament to curb the underground abortion
industry. Parliament had set a limit of 24 months after conception as being the
period to have an abortion and Cameron as if to indicate his belief in human
life even at infancy, stated that he would have the abortion limit revised from
24 weeks to 20 weeks (The Commentator). The
abortion debate is a heated one in the two countries with those that oppose it
citing the fact that life begins at conception. Donald Trump as if to agree
with Cameron, indicated that women that engage in abortion in an unlawful
manner should have some legal consequences or rat6ther punished for it.
According to Trump, abortion should not be legalized for everyone but should
only be a reserve of rape cases or an issue of health complications as may be
directed by a doctor. He does not believe in the policy of allowing women the
right to engage in abortion as they find it fit but indicates that abortion
needs to be controlled a stance mentioned in Cameron’s policies.
Trump and Cameron also have a
characteristic deviance and also differences in styles of leadership and also
policy positions from the political parties that they are affiliated. David
Cameron on numerous occasions of referring to himself as affiliate conservatism,
but in the contrast, he is busy implementing Tony Blair’s fourth term New Labor
agenda. His agenda in numerous occasions have generated some criticisms with
the Conservatism feeling that he is going overboard or rather forgetting his
conservatism roots to the presidency. Moreover, Cameron asserts that the growth
of the country cannot be reliant on either extreme of ideologies but should be
a blend of all the right characteristics of the various ideologies held in the
nation.
Similarly, Donald Trump has over time
been described himself a conservative Republican although he is running for the
presidency on a Republican Party ticket. He has been an icon of controversy
with his political positions with some observers describing him as being
eclectic and improvisational (Fried,
44). His stances with illegal migration where he thinks they
should be taken where they came from, free trade agreements policies as well as
military interventionism and his support for social security has in numerous
occasions put in him in conflict with Republican party establishment positions (Ahler and Broockman). He has on numerous occasions
reiterated that he is flexible and capable of changing at any given time. it is
an issue that is echoed by the fact that he has previously run for presidential
candidature on other party tickets including Democrat party changing the tune
in no time. He was also a perceived staunch supporter of the Democratic Party
being a donor and public supporter of the party but announced his candidature
in 2015 on a Republican Party ticket which may be perceived as ironic in some
cases (Ahler and Broockman).
Another major similarity between
Cameron and Trump is that neither man is exactly what he publicly claims to be
and is also very moderate conservatives. Donald Trump would like to bring out
an imagine of a flamboyant and less emotionally attached individual that is
full of controversy to the extent that onlookers wonder why Americans seem to
be favoring the Republican candidate (Ahler and
Broockman). Trump has also brought out an image of being an extremist
which is not the case at all. All that Trump has been able to achieve in the
recent past is create the faith and also the promise of offering security in
all aspects of the society. Security is an important part of human development
and fulfillment, and therefore, the promise of providing safety in health care,
economy, and education and even on the immigration issue is what has been
winning the hearts of Americans and not his arrogant and public display of
controversy. More voters have indicated fatigue and unwillingness to listen
further to candidates that selling explicit ideologies on the remedies they
face and just want to feel secure and their interests protected which is what
Trump is offering the American electorate (Hooper).
Trump is further not what he claims to be since over the years he has been a
strong Democratic Party donor and supporter and also held positions that
indicated his position. He was also a good friend of the Clintons (D'Antonio, 102-107).
It is an approach that also worked very
well for Cameron, who is a self-declared Conservative (Bale, 102). The David
Cameron general election victory indicated that in as much as some of the
minority still critically looked at the ideologies as well as the move from the
consensus politics, the majority of the electorate in Britain sought for the
party that offered and they believed would provide them with security. In his
speech after winning the election, Cameron made clear indications of being a
leader that calls himself a conservative bit is willing to use the machinery
and resources of the government to deliver social and economic outcomes that he
wants (Bale, 102). Cameron made the promise of building physical, economic and
social; security over and above the freedom of individual liberty of the
people. As is the case with the success that Trump is witnessing following his
offer of a similar style, that has what won the elections for Cameron as is
winning the primaries for Trump in the United States. Cameron and the
Conservative’s ran for elections on a platform of stability and security as the
principal objective were not thrilling, glamorous or inspiring but it offered
them the edge they needed over their opponents. It is a similar fashion in the
case of Trump, wherein as a much as he is not very popular for his earth moving
speeches, promises, and ideological prowess, he can tackle the issues that
Americans face in a unique and fearless fashion that offer a sense of security
to the electorate.
may argue that David Cameron as a sitting
Prime Minister is an indication of all that is ideologically vacuous and wrong
in the modern British Conservatism, but it is the ugly looking strategy that
won Cameron the elections (Kelly, 30). It is a similar fashion that Trump is
using in America and is winning him the Primaries and increasing his popularity
a presidential candidate in the country. The two may have diverse differences
with Cameron being a sharp critique of Trump especially on the ideology of
Islamism, but they have a lot more in common than meets the eye (Hooper). They may even sound and look like complete
opposites I style as well as temperament, but both David Cameron and Donald
Trump essentially play the same trick to the electorate and also have some
resounding similarities.
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