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Will the Right Hold Out an Olive Branch?

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How to survive the Trump changes Donald Trump has won the presidency, will be the 45th POTUS, and the progressives in the US are scared — really scared. If you are a centrist or left-of-center then that brain has, or is now doing some flips to make sense of what is going on. If in the Trump camp you are ecstatic and maybe feeling more powerful and ready to shove one of societies dregs or some other country around now to show them a new sheriff is in town. Or, maybe you realize those Clinton, Johnson and Stein supporters are now freaking out and ready to offer an olive branch and some comfort to those folks. Maybe you can see that offering a billy club is not the right tool and an olive branch would soothe things remarkably. Maybe you can see that those scared progressives need to hear you say that you have a firm limit on misogyny, racism, societal inequality, nationalism and a willingness to got to war. Maybe you can understand they need some reassuring words that you will not le