What Now?
"I’m not here to argue the legitimacy of the results. And I don’t get to pick and choose whether I support democracy because of the outcomes. I won’t tell you that you are a racist or a bigot if you voted for Donald Trump. I won’t even tell you that you personally are indecent. But I will tell you what you just bought with your choice. You bought a very vigilant, sensitive and loud American majority who will cry foul at the drop of a hat for anything that resembles attacks on those we have fought so hard for these last fifty years. Because what you showed us with his nomination and your vote in the election, is that you can’t be trusted to do it without us. Many of my devout conservative friends were remarkably quiet when their candidate trashed their personal values. And they were remarkably quiet when their candidate made inexcusable first hand remarks about minorities, women and disabled Americans. And they were remarkably quiet when the dark forces of white supremacists aligned themselves in support of their candidate. I understand why. You couldn’t live with the alternative. So you rationalized out of fear that speaking up would enable it. Well, that risk is gone now. You avoided the end you couldn’t live with. That excuse is gone. And now it’s fair to say that tolerance of that behavior from here on can only be seen as an endorsement of it. So when there’s a KKK rally in North Carolina to celebrate the election of the candidate you support, you no longer have any excuse not to condemn it with the same uncompromising vigor that you condemned Hillary. Let’s see the memes. Let’s see the Facebook posts. Let’s see the outrage."
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Hear hear! Especially about not living with the alternative. We did what we had to do. Now let's give him a chance to do some good. He's already backing off of a few so-called promises, such as a special prosecutor for Hillary. After all, to quote what she said about Benghazi, "What does it matter now?" He'll have to prioritize, select competent advisors and listen to them. She was talking of nominating Barack Obama to the Supreme Court. At the very least, we spared the country that.
You know, I think the "staying quiet" part is what caused all the polls to be so far off. People were not willing to admit that, when the dust settled, they were going to hold their collective nose and vote for the lesser of too evils. It still astonishes me that in a country of this size, these two were the best we could come up with.
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