Trump And Trump-Supporting Republicans Prevail

President-elect Donald Trump, congressional Republicans and elected Republicans throughout America prevailed on November 8th. Let there be no doubt about the fact that President-elect Trump won with the assistance of all of these Republicans even though they said that he is a con man who is unqualified and unfit to hold the esteemed office of President of the United States of America. They were a dominate tag team that gave us Democrats a whipping that we should never forget; and they did not even respect us enough to spare us the shame and humiliation of this whipping by taking us behind the woodshed to do it, they did it in public for all the world to see.

But just like they gave us a good whipping whether we admit it or not, all of them are responsible for assisting President-elect Trump to win this election whether they admit it or not. And they should be held accountable for this come the 2018 and 2020 elections no matter how hard they try to squirm their way out of it. They were a dominate, devastating and effective tag team because while congressional Republicans were obstructing all of President Obama’s policy efforts and blocking his nominees to fill open positions – the latest of which was Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, elected Republicans around the country were working hard to put laws into place to prevent legitimate voters who normally vote for Democrats from voting.

That plus WikiLeaks, the Russians, and their secret weapon in the form of FBI Director James Comey won the day for them. This is not the kind of Republic that the great majority of Americans envision and espouse. The election of Donald J. Trump the nominee was a poignant, sobering and disheartening day in history for far too many Americans. Ethnic minorities and targeted religious groups took the brunt of President-elect Trump’s hateful fury and this has emboldened hate groups and encouraged their reemergence to prominence.

I don’t know what kind of a president that Donald Trump will prove to be but I do know what kind of a candidate that he was. He was a candidate that appealed to the darkest fears of Americans and during his entire campaign he spouted a message of divisiveness and hatred. He now says that he wants to be the president of all of the people. He says that he wants to pull the country together and be my president despite the fact that the KKK and all stripes of white supremacists are coming out of their dark corners, celebrating his victory and proclaiming him as the hero whom they have long awaited. President-elect Trump cannot prevent them form doing this but he can disavow these groups, denounce their ideals and publicly state that this in no way represents what America stands for. He can avoid placing people on his staff who agree with the ideals of these groups and have regularly encouraged and promulgated their message of hate and divisiveness. But he has not done this.

President-elect Trump will be the president of the United States and I will respect his title and the esteemed office that he will hold. However, I do not respect the man. I do not accept the things that he, based on the rhetoric of his campaign, espouses and I do not accept a “Trump’s America.” I cannot and will not accept an America that reduces people of color to second class citizens, disparages women, ostracizes people because of their religion, works to obstruct or prevent legitimate voters from voting and purposely pits Americans against one another in the name of a so called effort to “make America great again.” I will peacefully fight against the implementation of a “Trump’s America every step of the way. America has always been great, is great now, and will remain great unless we succumb to this so called effort to “make America great ‘again‘.”

We must keep a close eye on President-elect Trump after he becomes president and monitor his every action closely. If he makes any effort to implement any of the hateful and divisive things that he talked about during his campaign then Americans, elected officials or not, must fight him every step of the way to prevent them from being implemented. President-elect Trump is not irredeemable but he has proven that he can and will lie effortlessly. And he has proven that his word carries little, if any, weight and that he will say whatever is expedient in the moment to please the audience that he is addressing if it will garner him the complements and adoration that he so much desires and seems unable to exist without.

I was traumatized by the election of President-elect Trump and can be counted among the many Americans who are anxious about him and his policies and concerned about how he will lead America forward. Already by talking about dismantling the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare), scrapping Roe v Wade, defunding Planned Parenthood and dissolving treaties and other agreements that we have with allies, it appears that his leading America forward involves a large dose of first leading her backwards.

Only time will reveal President-elect Trump’s and his tag team Republicans’ true intentions. During the interim we can only watch and wait…and plan for 2018 and 2020. However, while we are watching and waiting we must remain vigilant; otherwise, we run the risk of being taken by surprise and losing yet again. But like Secretary Clinton’s running mate Senator Tim Kaine said while quoting William Faulkner after their loss; “they kilt us but they ain’t whupped us yit.” Stay vigilant!

Eulus Dennis – author, Operation Rubik’s Cube and Living Between The Line