OK, the MAGA crowd has won. (That’s a more honest admission than Trump was capable of in 2020.) So what is the main difference between those who voted for versus those who voted against? Those who voted FOR do not believe he is guilty as charged for all the deeds and words since 2020. Those who voted AGAINST believe what they saw and heard. Who’s right? We were warned prior to the election that Trump would become a dictator and that American democracy was at stake. It’s ironic that pollsters told us that “the democracy” was the main reasoning behind the voters choice. But Democrats were using loss of the democracy as a putdown for Trump and a positive for Harris. So, when exit polls showed “democracy” as the most important deciding factor, Dems were encouraged. Obviously that euphoria was short-lived. Now America faces the second Trump term. Will we regret his victory or embrace it during those four years? Time will tell. If he keeps his campaign promises we’ll see mass deportations, higher inflation (from foreign tariffs), a confused energy policy (he loves Elon Musk and his electric vehicles but courts oil leases on Federal lands), the absence of climate change recognition, no tightening of gun access laws, a gifting of Ukraine (and maybe more) to Putin, etc. But the most disturbing domestic change will be access to abortion. Currently, this country is a confused patchwork of abortion laws. If states continue to make their own abortion rules we can expect bedlam to continue. If a national ban is set there will be national uproar from the 80+% who favor some access to abortion. With a corruptly biased US Supreme Court at his disposal a national ban will cause a huge rise in pregnant women deaths–as it already has in Texas and other states. In summary, the difference between pro-Trumpers and anti-Trumpers is that the “pro” group doesn’t understand what he’s capable of and the “anti” group thinks they do. We have no choice but to watch the Trump era unfold and ask ourselves daily “is this what we expected and what we want from our president?” We read an interesting comment: “A clown can enter a palace but that doesn’t make the clown a king–it makes the palace a circus”.
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