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Thanks to Obama

DEAR EDITOR:

We cannot thank Obama enough for “waking up” the American people after his eight-year administration.

The election was a complete repudiation of Barack Obama: his fantasy world of political correctness, politicization of the Justice Department and IRS, out-of-control EPA, neutering of the military, non-support of police and fixation on things like transgender bathrooms. Since becoming president, his party lost 63 House and 10 Senate seats and 14 governorships.

The country strongly signaled dissatisfaction in the last two midterms. His answer was more of the same.

Preaching and pandering with a message of inclusion, the Democrats have instead become a party where incivility and bad manners are taken for granted, rudeness is routine, religion is mocked and there is no respect for a differing opinion. This did not go down well in the Midwest where Trump flipped three blue states and 44 electoral votes.

Here is a short primer for young protesters. If your preferred candidate loses, there is no need for mass hysteria, canceled midterms, safe spaces, crying rooms or group primal screams. You might understand this better if you had not received participation trophies, undeserved grades to protect your feelings or had a proper understanding of civics. The Democrats are crying that Hillary Clinton had more popular votes. That can be her participation trophy.

Donald Trump received over 62 million votes, not all of them cast by homophobes, Islamaphobes, racists, sexists, misogynists or any other “ists.” I would caution Trump deniers that crying is not good preparation for the coming storm. The liberal media has lost credibility. I watched the networks and cable stations in their midnight meltdown — embodied by Rachel Maddow saying viewers were not having a “terrible dream” and had not died and “gone to hell.”

The media’s criticism of Trump’s high-level picks as “not diverse enough” or “too white and male” that came a day before he named two women and offered a cabinet position to an African-American, magnified this fact.

Here is a final word to my Democratic friends. There will not be a do-over election. To all the foreign countries that contributed to the Clinton Foundation, there will not be a payoff or a rebate.

As Eddie Murphy stated in the movie “48 Hrs.”: “There’s a new sheriff in town.” And he is going to be here for 1,461 days. Merry Christmas.

CATHY LUKASKO

Brookfield

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