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robhansen at 10:51pm on 14/01/2017
robhansen at 10:51pm on 14/01/2017President-Elect Trump's inauguration is coming up, and boy howdy do I have mixed feelings. The news media is treating this as if it's the Imminent Apocalypse, which it is not, and the Trump-aligned outlets like Breitbart are being cheerfully over-the-top, which is just as bad.
Look, Trump is terrible. But the unified voice of mass media having the high vapors over him, and millions of Americans screaming "not my President!", aren't doing anyone any favors. As unbelievable as it is to say, Trump won a fair (enough) election. When millions of Americans scream the 60-odd million people who voted for Trump and won should have their choice ignored, discarded, delegitimized, it just feeds into the opinion those 60-odd million Trump voters have of "those coastal liberals hate us and think we shouldn't be allowed to win elections, even when we play by the rules".
And that's profoundly anti-democratic, and deeply to the detriment of the country.
I plan on opposing Trump in just about any way I can. But to the Trump voters? Y'all won. I get that. I don't like the outcome, not even a little bit, but ... I get it.
Look, Trump is terrible. But the unified voice of mass media having the high vapors over him, and millions of Americans screaming "not my President!", aren't doing anyone any favors. As unbelievable as it is to say, Trump won a fair (enough) election. When millions of Americans scream the 60-odd million people who voted for Trump and won should have their choice ignored, discarded, delegitimized, it just feeds into the opinion those 60-odd million Trump voters have of "those coastal liberals hate us and think we shouldn't be allowed to win elections, even when we play by the rules".
And that's profoundly anti-democratic, and deeply to the detriment of the country.
I plan on opposing Trump in just about any way I can. But to the Trump voters? Y'all won. I get that. I don't like the outcome, not even a little bit, but ... I get it.