>>>>Maybe because its anointed a person who doesn't remotely reflect the majority of voters. You can't dodge this one. Trumps mandate is as solid as a Viennetta. Your MSM deplorables are the voice of the majority.
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>>At the end of a game of Rugby, there is a score. Sometimes the score doesn't accurately match playing prowess- e.g. the team with 80% possession still can lose if the other side has an ace kicker.
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>>If the team with 80% possession loses, you can congratulate them for playing well. But you cannot invent a new scoring system and pretend that possession can trump the final score.
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>>These are the effects of rules agreed in advance by all the players and teams. It's terrible sportspersonship to lose and then try to change the rules to concoct a win for yourself. That's a recipe for anarchy if everybody else began being such a bad sport.
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>>What cannot be dodged, is that Trump won according to the rules agreed by both candidates and teams in advance. Now he has mandate- by definition. And it cannot be dodged that some very poor sports are trying to retrofit alternative sets of rules to attack the winner- and claiming that it's done to protect the game of Rugby from the evil winning team.
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>I don't disagree that under the rules Trump wins the game and is entitled to his four years . But the idea that the opposition should suddenly sit on their hands and all pipe down is ridiculous. What they need is an unelected ceremonial monarch everyone can salute so attacking the head of the government doesn't seem unpatriotic.
>I remember many years ago making some slighting remark about Reagan to an American colleague who did take umbrage a bit and asked how I would feel if he as rude about (as he called her) Prime Minister Thatcher. Thats no problem to me I replied .


Good point. There was a quote from Kellyanne Conway in the last couple of days. Found it: "“The professional political left is attempting to foment a permanent opposition that is corrosive to our constitutional democracy,” Funny how she didn't think the Republican opposition over the last 8 years was corrosive.

Damn right I'm in opposition. I will be working as hard as I can to oppose Trump's and the GOP's agenda of eliminating Social Security and Medicare, taking health insurance away from 20 million Americans, reducing women's freedom to control their own reproduction, etc., etc., etc.

Tamar