>The facts haven't changed. This is setting up to be the most corrupt administration in living memory. It's also setting up to be incredibly conservative, far beyond any mandate he might have, given that he lost the popular vote and got a narrow Electoral College victory. Some of what he's said and done so far indicates an all-out war on voting rights is coming.
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>Where do you get this stuff from? So, apparently you think that New York and California should have the right to control the government for the rest of the 48 States????

Let's start with the mandate question. As of earlier this week, Trump was losing the popular vote by 1.7%. (53.5% of those who voted voted for someone else.) In fact, he has a lower percent of the popular vote than all but 7 previous winners. That's certainly not a mandate. (Here's my link for that data: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/28/donald-trumps-political-mandate-is-historically-small/?utm_term=.5d5ab7411326)

As for the electoral college, http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2016/nov/21/reince-priebus/despite-losing-popular-vote-donald-trump-won-elect/. Here's one excerpt:

"Calling a 306 electoral-vote victory a ‘landslide’ is ridiculous," Sabato told us. "Trump’s Electoral College majority is actually similar to John F. Kennedy’s 303 in 1960 and Jimmy Carter’s 297 in 1976. Has either of those victories ever been called a landslide? Of course not — and JFK and Carter actually won the popular vote narrowly."

I'll point out that Obama had larger victories both times and lots of folks denied that he had a mandate.

On to corruption. Putting his kids in charge of his businesses and then putting those same kinds on his transition team is actually all the evidence one should need. Presidents should set up a blind trust, where they don't know what they own and thus can't make choices to benefit their own businesses. But there's also the various calls with foreign leaders in which Trump apparently asked for favors for his businesses. There's also the event his new DC hotel held for foreign diplomats to encourage them to stay there and use the hotel for events. Then, yesterday, there was his astounding call with the President of Taiwan (which is a total break with US foreign policy), after which it emerged that the Trump organization has been exploring business opportunities in Taiwan. (For more on apparent corruption, check out https://corrupt.af/.)

I don't know about you, but I want a president to focus on what's best for the country, not what's best for his business empire, since those may not always coincide.

Finally, on conservatism, if you look at the folks he's named so far, they're virtually all from the far right wing. Jeff Sessions, his AG choice is opposed to civil rights and voting rights; oh, and to the IDEA, the law that said kids with special needs are entitled to an appropriate education. Betsy DeVos, his choice for Secretary of Education, has spent decades trying to destroy public schools, which in my view, are one of the key institutions of American democracy. Tom Price, the choice for HHS, voted to overturn a Washington, DC law that prevented employers from firing a woman for using birth control. And every nominee who'd been appointed as of Wednesday and who has a record on the subject, opposed gay rights. (Link for that last: http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/11/so-far-every-member-of-trumps-cabinet-opposes-lgbt-rights.html)

Tamar