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Trump should resign already
The word “resignation” not only has “nation” in it. It cuts both ways for understanding the state of politics in America.
Democrats are expected to resign themselves to a new administration under President-elect Donald Trump. The right thing to do, it would seem, considering Trump got a majority of the votes cast in the November election.
A slim majority, nonetheless, considering that he received a mere 2.3 million more of the roughly 152.2 million votes cast, a fact which reveals a balance of power in America.
But Americans don’t just disagree.
Democrats and Republicans digress to the point of being at each other’s throats. To expect Democrats to resign themselves to an administration they voted against because they consider it an aberration of America’s core values is absurd.
Trump gave half of America even more reason to strongly resist him llast month when he told NBC’s “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker that he could mass deport children of Dreamers after moving to end birthright citizenship enshrined in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
