We must be wary of growing nationalism, warns Obama

He said inequality, on more vivid display due to widespread technology, now posed one of the biggest threats to democratic nations, their stability and prosperity. There were masses ready and primed to vote for Trump because he motivated and inspired people to get out and vote. They have been told to “get over it” or “to accept the election results”. They lost and lost hard, but that doesn’t mean they are dead.

“Blacks supported Donald Trump, but you don’t hear none of that”, Hunt continued.

Was I supposed to vote for Clinton just because I’m a girl?

President Barack Obama is dodging a question about concerns that minorities and others have about President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to name Steve Bannon — a man celebrated by the white nationalist movement — his chief strategist and senior adviser. It is readily apparent that the “basket of deplorables” referred to by Hillary do exist, they’re just not where she said they were.

Clinton’s popular vote performance brings to mind the 2000 election, when Democrat Al Gore lost the White House despite taking 48.4 percent of the popular vote to George W. Bush’s 47.9 percent.

We understand we aren’t thinking rational.

“She congratulated us – it’s about us – on our victory”, he said.

“It allows us to correct for mistakes”, he said. We wanted America to progress, not lead us back to “the good old days”.

Trump has questioned the relevance of some of America’s paramount alliances, starting with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation; put the Paris climate-change accord in doubt by calling global warming “a hoax”, and sharply criticized the strenuously negotiated pact that Washington and five other countries signed with Iran to curb its nuclear program. Many people were killed for speaking their minds. Women didn’t have the right to vote.

Is this what will happen to America again?

I think it is important to remember why Clinton didn’t win.

Over time “different views of power and governance often prevailed – the belief that might makes right or that unchecked power is passed through bloodlines; the belief that some are superior by virtue of race or faith or ethnicity, beliefs that so often justified conquest and war”, he said.

“The liberal intelligentsia that endorsed Clinton and is now calling for the end of the electoral college, overplaying the Trump-Hitler analogy and calling for “#Calexit” are continuing the same level of thought that helped Clinton lose.

And to listeners at home fearful about Trump, he offered a path out of the wilderness, albeit a long and winding one. He says Trump will have more “time and space” to make “judicious decisions”. We all showed our respect and gratitude to the courageous men and women who so proudly served our great nation.

But after the near collapse of negotiations with Greece’s creditors – other European countries using the euro currency, and the International Monetary Fund – Tsipras performed a political about-face, signing up to a new bailout and more austerity to prevent his country being forced out of the euro. Many are hoping they will choose to make history and crown Hillary the victor, but it isn’t likely. GOP primary foe-turned-Trump supporter Doctor Ben Carson says he has no interest in a cabinet position, while House Homeland Security Chairman Mike McCaul is pushing to become the head of the federal agency he oversees in Congress.

Are we ready to accept that we are stuck with Donald Trump for the next four years?

Our argument has always been that when the economy contracted this fast, when unemployment is this high, that there also has to be a growth agenda to go with it.