(#6124) Woke is awakening!

      Enough! That is the message I see since this past Tuesday. Let there be no doubt that trump was the only republican one every ballot and he lost everywhere and by wide margins! There were other names next to the republican party nominee but all of them reflected back trump and his disgusting agenda. Nowhere did the republicans win any sort of silver lining victory. They absolutely lost everywhere even where they thought they would be competitive they were blown out. I can't get that image out of my head from the movie Tora Tora Tora where the Japanese actor playing Admiral Yamamoto concerning the attack on Pearl Harbor, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve,”.
     For me the awakening resolve started happening almost immediately after trump was sworn in. Slowly his poll numbers began to shrink and then more quickly once his real policies, not the ones he campaigned on, took shape. He has steadily made a mess of our foreign policy, our internal economics, and our melting pot ideal. Frankly I was astounded that he didn't play to his base with some of his promises during the campaign but no. He went after his base the same way he went after democrats, with full throated despisement. His base was not expecting that and kept waiting for him to make things right and exclude them from the harm he was determined to administer.
     But no! the trumps are not excluding anyone in the working middle poor class and those that support us regardless of party affiliation. Those of us who knew he was going to punish we democrats were expecting it. Those who voted for trump and are now in his crosshairs are akin to a young wide eyed doe waiting to be targeted. Their disbelief is real and although I have little sympathy for them as we told them trump cannot be trusted their pain is coming. However, they are realizing it now and I suspect many are quietly supporting the democratic pushback against the trumps. Their sense of betrayal coming from trump is forcing them to see things in a different light which is part of the awakening that is in full momentum now!