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Life After Trump — How Will this Look?
Can we even imagine this?
Donald Trump has consumed our lives for the past three and a half years.
Regardless of where you stand on the love him or hate him continuum, the fact remains that at some point he will leave public life. In our democracy, assuming he leaves us with a democracy, we have the expectation that at some point, in 2021 or 2025 he will leave office. Regardless of when or how, the reality is that he will leave, and what will we have left?
Lessons Learned — Have We Got it Right Yet?
Fear.
Fear motivates. Fear engages. Fear moves folks to action.
This is the lesson that Trump taught all of America. If a demographic can be made to fear ‘them,’ whomever the them may be, you can entice your target demographic to act in any way that he chooses. Over the course of the administration, the them has been illegal immigrants, women, non-Christian believers, peaceful protestors, the LGBTQ community, the African-American community, the Native American community, millennials, hell, every group that identifies as people of color (POC).
Objectively, a man that has publicly committed adultery, has been a ruthless -if unsuccessful — business person with multiple bankruptcies. He has openly displayed…
