President Hate
Another member commented on trump voters becoming disappointed when they lose their ACA healthcare or their Social Security. "They got their hate elected president, may that keep them warm and comfy."
Well stated. It got me to thinking that another nickname for the impending tyrant could be "President Hate." There was certainly a lot of hate motivating vast swaths of his voters, whether they want to admit it or not. They don't want to admit it; a lot of them fancy themselves as good loving Christians, and they may indeed perform acts of kindness for their fellow church members. Among their own kind, they create little communities. But if they found a stranger in the ditch, they are more likely to launch into a diatribe into the likely personal failings of such a stranger, and if that stranger were "colored" or foreign or gay, they might say, "how typical."
They hate Hillary with a frothing at the mouth kind of hatred. And they've elected a man who hated Obama so much that he pretended he wasn't even born here.
They hate Mexicans for taking their jobs and Muslims for being different. They all hate taxes, of course most people do, but maybe they hate education too, or they would have learned that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. Some of them hate women, or at least hate not having control over women – – if you don't believe that, look at Trump supporter Peter Thiel, who believes that women's suffrage was the beginning of the end for freedom and democracy. The ever-present hatred spewing from their radios has given them a background noise level of hatred for regulations, for protesters, for civil rights, and a foreground hatred of liberals.
If the man governs like he campaigned, he might well go down in history books as President Hate. In the fantasy world of those who voted for him, they hoped he would just "shake things up", and they thought that would mean Washington. Unfortunately, what he will shake up is our American principles, and our ability to be a shining city on the hill. If the arc of human history is "long but bends towards justice", I don't think that the future will be led by a man with so much hate. American leadership in the path toward justice, whether mythical or partly real, has been ceded.
The world can see that this man has been held up by so many Americans as a reflection of what they want the nation to become, and it isn't pretty what they see.