Now what? We will begin by feeling sorry for a lot of totally different teams of individuals, largely right here, however some overseas as properly, who will expertise horrible penalties of Trump’s re-election, both straight or not directly.
People Straight Affected
Muslims
Ladies who might have abortions
Sick folks coated below Obamacare
Immigrants and their younger youngsters escaping grave bodily hazard
Energetic responsibility navy and their households
Those that work in industries geared toward decarbonizing our vitality and transportation sectors, e.g. the 300K U.S. households whose weekly paychecks come from the growth of photo voltaic vitality
These whose jobs derive from the CHIPS act and the Inflation Discount Act
Individuals of shade
The working class whose taxes will improve to cowl additional handouts to the billionaires and large firms
LGTBQs
These dwelling in poverty
Individuals dwelling on Social Safety
Shoppers of services which can be made inexpensive by migrant staff who decide vegatables and fruits, work in eating places, and so on.
These involved about local weather change and different types of environmental degradation on account of slashed EPA regulation and a rise within the extraction and consumption of fossil fuels.
The rising variety of dad and mom and their youngsters who can’t afford non-public faculties
The way forward for America’s knowledge-based workforce, e.g., its engineers and physicians
Non-People Straight Affected:
Ukrainians, Taiwanese, and different folks around the globe who’re below assault or risk of assault by Putin, Xi, and the rising checklist of authoritarians and battle criminals
Europeans nervous about what Putin is prone to go after as soon as conquering Ukraine.
Not directly Effected
Those that consider that America advantages drastically from its adherence to the rule of regulation, i.e., single set of legal guidelines that apply to everyone equally
Individuals whose connection to all that is minor, however who’re compassionate human beings who care concerning the well-being of others.
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Regarding this final group, I defined to my son when he was youthful, “For you and me, involvement in politics is vital, however not as a result of it impacts us personally. We’re not poor, Muslims, uneducated, black, homosexual, immigrants escaping hazard, or ladies. We should be related to politics, however solely as a result of we care about different folks and hate to see them undergo.”
Aspect Notice – The Winners
To be honest, there are numerous teams whose inventory simply gained quite a lot of floor:
Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, who gave the impression to be headed towards expulsion from the U.S. Supreme Court docket
A wide range of criminals who will profit from the evisceration of the Justice Division
A couple of hundred insurrectionists now serving jail time
Trump’s high-level co-conspirators in his try and overthrow the U.S. authorities following the 2020 election loss
All would-be dictators across the globe who’ve renewed hope after seeing authoritarianism come to probably the most highly effective nation on Earth
The evangelical Christians, book-banners, and proponents of the Ten Commandments in lecture rooms
Fox Information and different ultra-right-wing “information” sources
Company CEOs who will now be below much less strain to supply workers a dwelling wage
