Day -32: Electoral College Day

Donald Trump — barring something substantially more unforeseen than his surprise Election Day victory — will officially be chosen to lead the country when 538 electors cast their ballots for President and Vice President today. Afterwards, 32 days will be the only thing between Trump and Inauguration Day.

The electors should know Trump is dangerous.

The electors should know Trump is a woefully incompetent.

The electors should know Trump has the temperament of a three-year old who lost his blankey.

The electors should know Trump has stocked his cabinet with largely unqualified loons.

The electors should know Trump lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes.

The electors should know many of Trump’s supporters are deplorable.

The electors should elect Trump.

Barack Obama famously said after his 2008 win, “Elections have consequences.” He was right, and those words ring true today.

We have rules for our elections. Unfortunately, the popular vote is irrelevant. Voters saw Trump’s temperament, knowledge, skill and rhetoric and elected him anyway, at least in the states that matter.

It’s very possible that Trump’s election pushes this country dangerously to the right, if not off the cliff entirely. Trump will likely be a puppet for the Putins, Tillersons, Bannons, Pences, Ryans and McConnells of the world. The odds of Trump buckling down to learn the nuts and bolts of the issues that matter most to this country are infinitesimal. This is a man who eschews vital daily briefings because of his “good brain,” claims to know more than the military regarding ways to defeat ISIS, openly mocks our intelligence community without any facts and believes diplomacy can be meted out in 140-character tweets from Trump Tower.

But he won a fair election.

Russian interference was clearly a huge issue this year, yet no one in the intelligence community is alleging the Russians interfered with the actual voting process or voting machines. Rather, they aided one party in getting elected via information and propaganda. That’s awful, but doesn’t mean the number of individuals who actually went into their polling place and punched Trump/Pence is any different than the results indicate.

Had Hillary Clinton won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote, and consequently installed a heavy left-leaning cabinet, there would be many on the right asking faithless electors to cast their vote for Trump, especially if the Electoral College outcome was close. And Democrats would largely be outraged and yell that the will of the voters should not be overturned.

The same must be true here.

Fight Trump on his antiquated, oppressive policies, on his truly heinous cabinet and advisers, on his divisive rhetoric, on his family’s untoward involvement in the administration, on his conflicts of interest. Push the media to cover him accurately and ignore propaganda. Lobby members of Congress to speak out forcefully and often when Trump does anything that puts this country in a modicum of danger.

Vote like hell to push Trump and Trump’s puppets out of power in two, four or six years.

Because elections have consequences.

-32 days in, 1493 to go

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