NO, WE ARE NOT RACISTS. WE JUST WANT OUR COUNTRY BACK!

Today, Tuesday December 27, 2016, a member of Trump Transition Team, Anthony Scaramucci corrected the anchor on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews as follows.

"You don't say just Trump but President Elect Trump."

This is serious. I cannot believe that a group of unrepentant racists and scaremongers who have called Barack Obama all sorts of names, anything but President Obama, will bristle that a television anchor, in the heat of a discussion, forgot to add the title President Elect whenever the name Trump is mentioned. With Birtherism and all the many obstructionist movements of the past eight years almost stripping the US presidency of all respect because the wrong person was occupying the elevated position, many had assumed that we are confronted with a new normal. What then is the hurry in appropriating imaginary respect due to to a president elect when the incumbent is still being daily treated with such disdain?

Trump’s rabid supporters will undoubtedly continue to worship at his feet. That their entitlement. However it may take the better part of his tenure for them to come to terms with the snake oil that they have just been sold. So long as he doesn't start the Third World War, we shall survive anything that he does.

The GOP leadership is something else. They wanted the White House by any means fair or foul. My favourite expression has been "Pact with the Devil." I stand by it. Now comes the hard part. It is easy to give a monkey a drink. Getting back the cup is easier said than done. That is the predicament facing Mitch McConnel, Paul Ryan and others, whether they publicly own up or not. Meanwhile the likes of Newt Gingrich are fully expired, essentially yesterday's men. Perhaps it is time to bring back the Eric Cantors and Jeff Bushes of this world to start the rudiments of a rescue mission. The US needs that. They will probably find John Kasich good company.

Did anyone hear what Carl Paladino ranted today to a newspaper about President Obama and the First Lady? He later commented that the well crafted insults were deliberate, neither a mistake nor a slip of whatever. This is another member of the Trump Transition Team. The statement was so obscene, not worth repeating here, that even the Trump Team had to immediately disown him. Is that for real? Is anybody fooled? I doubt it.

I am amazed that some people whose great grandparent, escaping famine and/or persecution, arrived in North America with not as much as a goat, now talk glibly about taking their country back. From whom?
The Native Americans?
What nonsense.