To Those Who Would Cast Aspersions on the Election of Donald Trump
No matter how hard the forces still allayed against him try, with all their might to deny him the presidency, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the forty-fifth President of the United States at noon on Friday, January 20th, 2017.
For the sake of clarity, we will state it again.
Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the forty-fifth President of the United States at noon on Friday, January 20th, 2017.
Whether one is a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a stubborn “NeverTrump” Rattlesnake Republican, a Bernie Sanders socialist, a stick-with-her-to-the-hilt Hillary Clinton sycophant, an elitist we-know-better-than-you political pundit, a so-called scientific pollster, an inside-the-beltway politico, or a consummate conspiracy theorist, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the forty-fifth President of the United States at noon on Friday, January 20th, 2017.
On Monday, December 19th 2016, the Electoral College will convene to certify that Donald Trump won the 2016 Presidential Election with 306 electoral votes, 36 more than the 270 electoral votes necessary to win, and that Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 Presidential Election with 232 electoral votes, 38 less than the 270 Electoral votes necessary to win. The idea that enough presidential electors will go against their mandates, and summarily reverse the outcome on that day, is nothing more than pure presidential and political poppycock. Suffice to say that it would be more likely (and to some, even more desirable) that the Indianapolis Colts and the Baltimore Ravens will suddenly decide to swap team names, just so the Colts could return to the city where they began playing in the All-American Football Conference in 1947, and where the reincarnated Colts resumed NFL play in 1953.
Oh, we all can bet the farm on the fact that all of the forces allayed against Trump will do their level best to cast aspersions on his uncanny victory, for the four or eight years that he will serve as president, just as the similar forces did their level best to cast aspersions on George Bush’s wins in 2000 and 2004, and even Ronald Reagan’s wins in 1980 and 1984. Demands for recounts will inevitably show that even more people voted for Trump than the official vote tallies thus far reported, but the machinations of the disenchanted won’t stop there. Trump’s enemies will claim that the Russians somehow rigged the election itself (they didn’t), that the Russians hacked the e-mails of the Democratic National Committee, members of the mainstream media and Hillary Clinton just to make her look bad (despite the fact that it was operatives in the DNC, representatives of the mainstream media and Mrs. Clinton who authored these same e-mails in the first place), and that Donald Trump has far too many potential conflicts of interest to become president (he doesn’t). Amazingly, all of these same people who so vehemently oppose Trump’s inauguration had absolutely no problems with fraudulent voting that ran rampant in Barack Obama’s first election in 2008, had no uneasiness about the authenticity (or lack, thereof) of Barack Obama’s birth certificate, and had no qualms about the sealing of his academic and collegiate records which might have otherwise indicated a foreign birth…
…in a word, hypocrisy.
While there are those who think that Mr. Trump is the most divisive president ever elected in the history of the United States, these same ignoramuses don’t know their infernal regions from a hole in the ground…nor do they know their own country’s history.
Once upon a time, it was recorded that an elected president who won only 39.8 percent of the popular vote, and who was so opposed, so hated and so reviled by a large portion of the American electorate- one who even assembled his cabinet with many who were aligned against his presidency in the first place, that it touched off the costliest war in American history. His name was Abraham Lincoln.
Does anyone with any shred of sense believe that Donald Trump’s election and subsequent inauguration will touch off another civil war in the United States?
Let them hear this loud and clear…
… Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the forty-fifth President of the United States at noon on Friday, January 20th, 2017.
Get over it.
-Drew Nickell, 14 December 2016
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