Gloom

It's not going to be all gloom and doom for minorities during the Trump era but it will be much more difficult than now to be sure. Transgender people, already marginalized to begin with will undergo more scrutiny from MAGA yahoos who feel emboldened. There have already been reported incidents such as a young black woman being verbally assaulted by a white male in the throws of post-election bravado. 

The aim of this cabal is to reshape the cultural landscape and take it backwards. Steve Bannon who used to run the trash rag Breitbart has made no bones about it and anyone who lives openly in opposition to their desired goals runs the risk of being a target. 

That a huge chunk of the electorate voted against their own interest isn't mind boggling if one understands human nature and the right wing media machine helped it along. The question which then begs asking is how is democracy going to regain its footing after an election that just rejected it. 

It's true that the Democrats were still a bit tainted with corporatist and elitist stench but the Biden tried hard to combat Neoliberal instincts by being surprisingly progressive. Still, the message never got through. 

I read a comment by an 81 year old grandmother who warned her family to leave her alone after they expressed fear that their health care would be taken away. They had all voted Trump save for 2 of them. 

"You voted for him, now deal with it" she said.