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"Six days after Donald Trump won the presidency, many on the left are
still angry and depressed. Thousands are protesting in the streets,
believing they will soon be victims of oppression. Most of the
demonstrators are peaceful, but some are not. Apart from wanting open immigration, one of the main beefs on the left is that the philosophy
of inclusion is endangered by Trump. Apparently the anti-Trump people
believe that eight years of the Obama administration have brought about
an American unification, that we are basically harmonious in this
country and now all that harmony has dissolved because Trump was
elected. The fact is more than 60 million Americans do not feel that
President Obama included them in his grand left-wing vision, thus they
voted against continuing his legacy by giving power to Mr. Trump. Let's
get more specific. It is not inclusive to spit in the eye of religious Americans by forcing nuns to fund birth control and promoting abortion
without limits. Same thing with forcing Americans to pay more for
health insurance so the poor can have free or subsidized health care.
That's good for the have-nots, but millions of working Americans are
not included in the benefits of ObamaCare. They are hurt by higher
premiums and lack of medical choices. It is not inclusive to ignore the
hard drug epidemic in America that is shattering families and killing
thousands while diverting the attention of the Justice Department into controversies like who can use which bathroom. Then there's illegal immigration. It is not inclusive to fail to monitor the workplace so
that foreign nationals who have no right to be here can waltz on in and
secure jobs. On the safety front, it is not inclusive to fail to
protect the poor in Chicago from the murderous gang violence that has
been going on for years while the city fathers did absolutely nothing
to contain it. Many urban folks are not included in effective public
safety policies. Likewise, failing to protect all Americans from
illegal alien felons who defy deportation is not inclusive. Children in
bad schools are not included in quality education, are they? The left
fights desperately against charter schools and vouchers for the poor,
which would give low-income families school choice. Memo to the
progressive community: Opposing school competition is not inclusive at
all! Hating your neighbor because he or she holds different life views
is not inclusive. Despising white or black or Asian or Hispanic folks
is not inclusive. Disparaging gays is not inclusive. But forcing
business people to support gay nuptials when their religious beliefs
are challenged is not inclusive either. The national media in this
country generally excludes traditional Americans from fair play. They
mock and demean conservative folks, sometimes even branding them
racist, sexist and haters. This awful trend is championed on the
Internet, which pretty much excludes anyone who is not liberal from
inclusion in the 'good person' club. So you are living in a fantasy
world if you think the liberal administration of the past eight years
has encouraged inclusion. It has not. And the millions of Americans who
have been excluded have now put an end to the inclusion delusion. A
good thing."

Democratic strategists Richard Goodstein and Garland Nixon evaluated
the Talking Points Memo and the current protests. "You're wrong in
interpreting this election as a reflection on the Obama
administration," Nixon began. "I think this was really about Hillary
Clinton - the people in the rust belt who put Donald Trump over the top
voted for Barack Obama. I blame the mainstream media because they have
told people they have to be afraid of Donald Trump, and now there is a
mass of terrified people." Goodstein argued that the marchers have
legitimate reasons to protest. "People are protesting because they are
feeling scared, they have looked back at what Donald Trump said. If
these kids were watching the news over the past year, they heard the
Bushes and Romney and Colin Powell call Trump a bigot and con artist.
So you can't really lay this on the media when it was leading
Republicans who were saying these things."

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