Happy Trump Day!

[Wids]

BOOYAH!  Hillary got Trumped, Bill got Trumped, Chelsea got Trumped, the Clinton Foundation got Trumped, CNN (the Clinton News Network) got Trumped, the rest of the liberal media got Trumped, their crooked pollsters got Trumped, the corrupt and aristocratic career politicians who are dreading the sound of "President Donald Trump" all got Trumped...every scumbag who decided that he or she could command the American people on whom they could and could not vote for got Trumped!   

As an Air Force enlistee who had the misfortune of having Bill Clinton as my Commander-in-Chief, for the past two decades I've been hoping with all my might that Billy Blue-Dress would never, ever set foot inside the White House again.  So the very notion of another Clinton Presidency was enough to keep me awake some nights.  Now I can sleep easily again, at least for another four years.  Suck on that, Hillary!

So how are the rest of y'all handling this extraordinary news?   

[Darkzealot]

I am not in the US but my read of people I know is that it is a mix of disgust,  fear and hopelessness.  Disgust over the bigotry uttered by the president,  fear for the future (which always occurs after an election),  and hopelessness that it came down to two utterly awful options.

Personally,  I don't think it makes much of a difference,  and hope that any flaw the president has will be countered by the rest of the political system.

That said,  I can only find the post-victory gloating (that surely would have occurred regardless of the victor)  is in poor taste...

[Wids]

I haven't seen any post-victory gloating yet.  I watched Trump's victory speech, and he was surprisingly gracious to Hillary, saying that she "fought very hard" in the Presidential race and asking us to thank her for her service (if you could call it "service," IMHO) as Secretary of State.  I had to do a double-take, considering how savagely he was ripping into Hillary over the past year.  "Wait a minute.  Is this the same Donald Trump I voted for?  He's being nice to Hillary!  What's going on here?"

The way I see it, eight miserable years of Obama, eight years of Dubya's utter incompetence and eight terrorist-friendly years of Billy Blue-Dress have taught us quite profoundly that the common people can't trust career politicians to repair the damage that was inflicted by career politicians.  We need a non-politician -- outside the political machine and beholden to no one -- to do that.  36 years ago, our non-politician was Ronald Reagan, and look at what he accomplished: unmaking all of Jimmy Carter's bungling, beating Muammar Gadhafi and his terrorists into submission, working with Russia to tear down the Berlin Wall and end the Cold War, and so on.

If Ronald Reagan can become an iconic President, Donald Trump can become an iconic President.  In this, I have unswerving faith.  And I'm looking forward to what 2017 will bring!

[fealhach2008]

If the Democrats had put anyone else forward but the arch career politician herself, they probably would have won. The electorate wanted someone to give them hope, but she gave them Katy Perry and Jay-Z instead.

I'm no fan of Trump. Not one bit. But people are starting to figure out that liberal elitism has nothing to offer them.

It works for the haves, not the have-nots.

[Wids]

Exactly!  People have been saying that Trump might have lost if Bernie Sanders hadn't been cheated out of the nomination by Hillary's skullduggery.  That may be debatable (given Sanders being a bit too Obama-like in his pushes for socialist policies), but his history's squeaky-clean compared to Hillary's.  He might have stood a respectable chance of winning the Presidency on that nugget alone.