{"id":24508,"date":"2016-11-10T04:19:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T12:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=24508"},"modified":"2016-11-10T04:23:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T12:23:06","slug":"winter-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/10\/winter-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"“Winter is here.”*"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, the election is over.  What now?  Without doubt, the Democrats will be analysing their goals and values, their platform, their methods, their infrastructure, and their communication, not unlike the Republicans did after 2012 when Obama won re-election.  Republicans made some surface changes but nothing really changed . . . there was still a war on women, a war on equality, a war on science, a war on civil rights, a war on affordable healthcare. Progressives must do much better.<\/span><\/p>\n

* <\/span><\/strong>The title of this article is a direct quote from Garry Kasparov, former world chess champion and a vocal opponent of Putin.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some ordinary citizens react to the Trump victory with mostly peaceful protests around the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"not-my-prez-1\"<\/p>\n

\"not-my-prez-7\"<\/p>\n

\"not-my-prez-2\"<\/p>\n

Some of that <\/span>"hated" press<\/strong><\/span><\/a> reacts to the Trump victory:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"trump-what-have-they-done\" \"trump-american-psycho\"<\/p>\n

Click through for more headlines at <\/span>The Guardian<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Reactions to Trump's election victory from around the world by <\/span>MSN.com<\/span><\/a><\/strong> — <\/strong>PM Justin Trudeau of Canada said Canada and the US share the same values and is sticking with the "I'll work with him" but how that will go is anyone's guess, especially after the warm relationship with the Obamas.  Respectfully, I disagree with him as I do not think that Canadians and the Trumpians share the same values.  In Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador called for calm and reminded all that Mexico is “<\/span>a free, independent, sovereign country<\/span>”.  BTW, the Mexican Pesos dropped in value so far that it's richest man, Carlos Slim, lost $5 billion from his investments over night.  The EU wants to sit down with Trump to seek "<\/span>reassurance on key issues on which Trump’s remarks on the campaign trial have rattled European leaders, including migration, climate change and Russia’s threat to Ukraine.<\/span>"  George Freeman of the No 10 policy board in the UK "<\/span>…at one point described him as Trumpolini, added: “the key now is how he governs, and who he appoints to his administration”<\/span>."  In France, François Hollande, who supported Hillary Clinton, said the win <\/span>“opens up a period of uncertainty” that “must be faced with lucidity and clarity”. <\/span>The German defence minister, Ursula von der Leyen<\/span>, said <\/span>“I think Trump knows that this was not a vote for him but rather against Washington, against the establishment.”  <\/span>Pablo Iglesias of Spain said <\/span>“The vaccine against Trump’s fascism is social justice and human rights, not more establishment. There are people in the US who will resist.”<\/span>.  But the Prime Minister was more conciliatory.  Of course Netanyahu was happy with Trump's win, but the Palestinians not so much.  As should be expected given past relations, Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's foreign minister said <\/span>“America has to implement the international obligation it accepted under the nuclear deal.”  <\/span>Since many Republicans were against the nuclear agreement, I wonder if they will just tear it up.  This is a big issue for some of my Iranian friends who still have family in Iran.  They are very uneasy.  <\/span>A spokesperson for China's foreign ministry said <\/span>“We will work with the new US president to ensure the steady and sound development of bilateral relations so as to benefit the people in both countries as well as around the world,”  <\/span>I wonder if he is aware that Trump has said he'll move to have China on the carpet for currency manipulations and other faux pas.<\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>Washington Post<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/strong>reported that an amalgamation of reactions from Islamic extremists appeared on the Lebanon based Now News <\/em>English website as:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"taliban\"<\/p>\n

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The remarks signaled the militants' apparent belief that the victory of a candidate like Trump<\/a>, who has suggested potentially unconstitutional blocks on Muslim immigration and advocated torture, undermines the United States' moral standing in the world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This reaction by Keith Olbermann<\/span><\/p>\n