THE NEXT PRESIDENT of America has been decided. If it felt like a big election, it’s because it was. As Michelle Obama said of Trump’s shameful, bigotry-based campaign, this is “not politics as usual.”
What is most disturbing, though, is that throughout the election, poll after poll put support for Trump at around 40 per cent. Those people do not suddenly disappear after the election. Millions of them are happy to ignore and, indeed, endorse Trump’s bigotry — and that terrifies me.
Trump has released a genie of hatred. Again and again I have seen his supporters applaud him for “telling it how it is” and “saying what we’re all thinking.” Clinton, meanwhile, was accused of being inauthentic, for the terrible crime of thinking about what she says before she says it.
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