Personally, I wish the transition was more smooth than it appears at the moment. Sure it's early to really see the full transition, but I find it appalling my entire social media (besides here) seems entirely out of touch with reality. I've seen my close friends denounce ALL Trump supporters as deplorable, racist, xenophobes etc., and when I asked if that included me, one of their closer friends, they replied yes. I see the riots in Chicago and New York and it's frightening that these are all the people around me, furious and chaotic over what I view as a sensible, democratic victory. I see petitions to remove the electoral college entirely, which was created to prevent the Presidency from becoming a pure popularity contest and representing all different states and demographics as well as it could. I see Calexit, and that's literally frightening people want to secede from the Union, literally without a government/economy/military to protect them from the superpower they plan to leave behind. And some analysts suppose that this election was caused by "white-lash" against the current president, when the data simply doesn't fit this.
None of this makes any sense; not even in the context of a "deplorable" president being elected. There's plenty of checks and balances to prevent one person from defining the entirety of American policy and culture, so why are these people appear so crazed and belligerent and frightened over one election they lost fair and square? This is especially strange since these same people blasted the candidate who won if he wouldn't peacefully accept the result if he thought he lost illegitimately. None of this makes sense.
I want the hate and the poison to stop. The people who elected this man are not the evil spawn that we're painted to be. We're individuals who felt we had no other choice to preserve most of our self interests. I'm honestly a closet trans-person, but I still voted for Trump because my conscience would not allow me to vote Hillary. I almost didn't vote for him, but I followed my conscience and ended up choosing that vote. So, am I truly a deplorable for wanting something different than left agenda? Am I a traitor to the LGBTQ community, a racist, or a xenophobe?
No. I don't believe so. So, I'd really appreciate that the hate and poison speech on both sides stop. No one is perfect, and we have reasons behind our choices. Don't paint this black and white based on your views. There's an opportunity here to Make America Great Again, but we can only do this if we unite because We're Stronger Together.