NO WAY was Donald Trump going to win. They censored us on their websites, delivered insults as emotionally painful as they could conceive to us every time they encountered us, considered us ignorant, rude, and inferior, and certainly not a national threat. Trump supporters were certainly not THEIR neighbors.
But of course we were. Many or most of us kept our mouths shut precisely because we knew we could expect a verbal barrage and quite possibly a physical attack if we spoke our views publicly. But no better way of misgauging the Zeitgeist could be imagined. You have one group histrionically proclaiming the death of another, while that other group still retains the right to vote privately, and to speak privately, however they choose.
And we picked a loud mouth for a President. Thank God!!! That was the point. We wanted a big talked, because we were and are tired of being insulted without any of our leaders returning fire in the way and at the volume it was launched at us.
So here we are, a year and a half or so into Trump’s Presidency, and many of these psychological misfits are still trying to figure out what happened. What happened is that their bullying simply made us hold our tongues. We never went anywhere. Nor will we. My best guess is that their tactics can only be causing our numbers to grow. We are the true Liberals. We are the protectors and defenders of the authentic American traditions of tolerance, justice, rational self defense, and reasonable introspection without irrational shame. Our nation is not perfect yet. We get that. But it is perfectable. We can continue doing better, without feeling the need to cower in the dirt and hang our heads in shame because we were not doing as well 100 years ago, or even 20 years ago, as we are now.