Stupidest response to a candidate from your party losing is “she deserved it.”
Uh, dudes, not about the effect on the candidate
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) November 10, 2016
Few who wanted Hillary to win so they keep expanded Medicaid or their mom won’t get deported thinking about whether Hillary deserved to lose
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) November 10, 2016
Apart from dusting ourselves off and preparing for the next four years, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
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Gail Collins, who’s been getting under Trump’s thin skin since the 1980s, has “A 10-Step Program for Adjusting to President-Elect Donald Trump“:
… 2) Acknowledge that Donald Trump is not crazy. Obviously, he has been known to act crazy in public. But if you met him at a private social occasion you would probably find him to be a fairly pleasant person.
I say that as someone who once got a letter from Trump telling me I had the face of a dog. But the next time I saw him at a lunch meeting he was fine. Told interesting jokes about how much money he got for product placement on his TV show. Obviously, this isn’t the equivalent of “Theodore Roosevelt reincarnated.” But we’re trying to work with what we have here…
6) When it comes to big domestic policy questions, to Trump they’re just applause lines or bargaining chips. Anything could go either way.
While that’s not necessarily calming, it’s better than assuming he actually believes all the stuff he says. What kind of program could he really, really get his heart and soul behind? The only thing I can imagine is a multitrillion-dollar Donald Trump Historic Biggest Ever Infrastructure and 50-State Golf Course Building Program.
7) About the election results: Don’t let people tell you that the vote proves half the American population is racist. There’s another reasonable explanation for Trump’s victory. In most presidential elections, people decide between change and continuity. Hillary Clinton was running to continue the Obama legacy. After a president serves two terms, Americans generally vote for change, and the other party’s nominee.
Yeah, I know — those people yelling the N-word or “Sieg heil!” at the rallies. But if you dwell on them, you’re not going to want to go out of the house anymore. Think of it as basically a change/no change election. Plus some deplorables rattling around the basket…
(There’s certainly a problem with internalized/institutionalized racism. Think of this as part of the root wisdom for political organizing: Despair is not a strategy.)
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