A Right Wing Cannot Flap Alone, or, Donald Trump Screwed the Putsch

[Dark Jaguar]

Alright, I've come to accept something I think we all need to.  There was never a "rejection" of Trump, and no election in my lifetime has ever been a "rejection" of anything, for one simple reason.  It's too close to be definitive.  Our nation no longer knows what a "landslide election" actually is.  We quibble over a 5% lead being a "landslide", and frankly that's ridiculous, because that means there is still very nearly half our entire voting population that wanted the opposite.  It has ALWAYS been close, at least during my lifetime, and we need to stop pretending that an election says anything more than basically... whims of fate, a certain level of randomness, determining an outcome.  I don't mean really random as in error bars or anything, just in the sense that, well, look at these results. 

I've been arguing over things like how flawed the electoral college is, or flaws in political strategy, or the problems in rampant misinformation.  All of that is true, but at a fundamental level, what we have is a country that is fundamentally divided.  If we won, it wouldn't be a "repudiation" of Trump, it would have just been a slim victory.

Our nation's problems are far more fundamental.  A whole lot of people really do simply want to win, and simply don't care if they're "right", they just want to be on the winning side.  Nothing deeper than that.  The only way to truly fix our country is the long slow hard route of changing the minds of half the nation.  There is no other path.

But for now, for the next four years, we need to do everything in our power to make sure that Trump is ONLY president for four more years.  That's going to involve a lot of grassroots local politics and forming cooperative groups.  We're going to all have to get out of our comfort zones and actually meet people in real life, find common ground, and form groups.