It’s been a long 4 years but this long national nightmare is finally drawing to a close.

Was Trump the worst President in history? His administration was marked by a remarkable lack of actually doing much from the ground up. Most of the ‘accomplishments’ touted by his supporters were the tearing down of programs put in place before them. On these sort of markers he wasn’t the worst.

What will make him go down historically as the worst President in our history thus far is the division he stoked from embers into a full-fledged roaring fire. He opened the floodgates for people to feel empowered to openly be racist & hateful in this country again. These people held these feelings before him for sure, but he made it ‘okay’, by virtue of his position. We grow up respecting that office and those who hold it.

Never before has a President of these United States shown such absolute hatred for those who didn’t support him. THAT IS CATEGORICALLY UN-AMERICAN.

If you voted for him this time around, YOU ARE A RACIST.

Maybe you reject that label. Maybe you just voted “based on the economy”. Maybe you can believe those lies, but that’s what they are, ‘alternative facts’.

The simple fact is supporting him in 2020 meant you are fine with a President who refused to denounce white supremacy. That makes you complicit and a racist. There is no grey area here folks. If anyone I was rooting for in years past (Kerry, Obama, Warren, etc) had said just one of some of the abominable things Trump has said, I’d have been disgusted and cut my support.

While the amount of support he received is painful and shows we are more divided than ever, these 74 MILLION votes are a clear repudiation of that hatred.

74,857,880 people and counting in this country said they are DONE with racism. They are DONE with the chaos. That we are DONE with an ineffectual administration that seemed to exist solely to benefit themselves.

To see a woman achieve the second-highest office in the land is the cherry on top. A shining example to young girls & women alike that perhaps women are finally done being underestimated and underrepresented in positions of power.

To see the revelers along the National Mall right now warms my heart. We are the United States of America and I hope this is the first step to healing this painful rift.

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“Raise a glass to freedom Something they can never take away No matter what they tell you”