I think enough time has gone by that we can begin to assess what did happen, what went wrong and what was done right. For what it might be worth, here is my modest contribution to doing just that.
You can oppose Trump for being racist and sexist, and you would be right.
Then again you could have opposed Attila the Hun for not being christian, or opposed Genghis Khan for cruelty to animals, and you would be right.
You would also be missing the Bigger Picture.
Trump doesn't give a minute of his time thinking about race and gender.
Trump thinks about money. It's his raison d'être, and that's the problem.
As Steven Salaita says on Facebook:
Trump is unusually crude and boastful. As a result, nearly all his actions highlight a reality obscured by more cultured politicians: the ruling class, in both its conservative and liberal incarnations, has unadulterated contempt for those with less power.
Two articles about the Crimea "issue".
The first is by Eric Zuesse of Washington's Blog and Strategic Culture Foundation. In it, he posits:
I caught onto Donald Trump's game early on in the presidential campaign. I'm not bragging, many others did as well, I'm just saying that to set up the next part.
I like watching people squirm.
Not really, not in a bad way.
I would like to mention that I had an uncle who was an academy award winning screenwriter whose career was ended by the HUAC, the House Unamerican Activities Committee. So, from family legend, we are quite aware that "advocating the overthrow of the USA government" is illegal and in modern times, even if one lives on the opposite side of the world from Washington, DC, the results for advocating such a thing can get you, and your children and grandchildren massacred by a drone strike.
I've been waiting to say that, "Donald Trump is a War Criminal". Like Obama, the Bush's and the Clinton's, now Donald Trump is a verifiable war criminal, a murderer. He has waged illegal war in Yemen and killed innocent human beings.
We have another murderer for president. A child killer. Another United States government criminal wanted for the crime of murder. Support that and it's on you too.
The calls are going out now! Impeach Trump!
Well it's good to know that there's some support out there for the idea of President Pence.
So okay the protesters didn't show up when militias armed by the Pentagon fought those armed by the CIA. Isn't stuff like that the reason they're refugees in the first place? Better late than never, I guess.
