I understand the country's repudiation of Hillary Clinton.
Hillary is a dishonest, elitist fraud utterly lacking in character who had no idea how to talk to people. Nevertheless, she believed she was entitled to live in The White House at taxpayers' expense and not subject to the laws constraining us mere peasants.
Hillary not only turned off people who never liked her in the first place, but she turned off portions of the Democrat constituency including African-Americans who turned out in record numbers for President Obama and Millennials and blue collar workers who turned out for Bernie Sanders. No doubt there were many people in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin who twice voted for President Obama who cast a ballot for Donald Trump last night. She did Herself no favors by calling half of Trump's supporters deplorable and irredeemable. Hillary Clinton has only Herself to blame for her downfall.
Yet for all of Hillary's dishonesty and lack of character, a critical mass of Americans accepted whatever Trump said at face value even if it was an outright lie whether it the Mexican government deliberately sending criminals to this country, thousands of Muslims cheering 9/11 or Ted Cruz's father being part of the JFK assassination plot. Let us also not forget his attacks on Judge Curiel's Mexican heritage, mocking a physically disabled reporter and suggesting there could be violence if he didn't win the RNC. A critical mass took what Trump said to be the gospel truth and didn't care about his cruel behavior. This does not bode well for our future.
There are those who suggest that now Trump will become President, he will moderate his tone and become more presidential. Yet this ignores the fact that Trump broke every political rule in the book and got away with it. Why would he change his behavior now?
Of course, we should hope for the best, but we must also prepare for the worst. What I fear the most about Donald Trump is that he is a man unaccustomed to being told no. At the moment, Trump is backed by a Republican Congress and will very likely have a conservative Supreme Court. But if these institutions see fit not to do his bidding and media insists on holding his feet to the fire, I fear that Trump might see fit to shut down these institutions or at the very least use the power of the federal government to punish those who dare to disagree with him. Above all else, I fear that Trump won't leave office if he is defeated in 2020 or if he has reached two terms on January 20, 2025.
This might seem like an outlandish scenario to some. But it wasn't so long ago that the whole idea of a Trump presidency seemed outlandish.
If the scenario I present does come to pass we will look upon November 8, 2016 and ask, "My God, what have we done?"
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