Five Reasons Why Trump's Win Was A Good Thing

I believe in a just world. I believe in a world where things turn out for the best. Call me delusional, but that's how I feel.

The 2016 election results threw me for a loop. Not as bad as the 2000 election, but close. And the outcome has seemingly been worse.

Ever since Donald Trump came on the scene, I’ve found myself more and more disgusted and then alarmed by the ways in which he’s revealed himself to be a monster – the racist, sexist, and mean things he says, the stealing and lying, and the hypocrisy of his public relations people. From supporting avowed Nazis to taking children hostage at the border, not to mention pulling out of both the Paris Climate Accord and the G7, Trump has been the disaster we feared and then some.

Nevertheless, in hopes of finding reason to believe, I came up with a list of upsides to Donald Trump/Republican triumph:

1. By comparison, Barack Obama was a far better president than Trump ever showed himself to be. Granted, it's a low bar.
2. They have made the American Healthcare Act more popular than Obama was ever able to do
3. People are rising up. The Women's March in January 2017 was the largest single day protest in U.S. history
4. As Janelle James said in the Two Dope Queens podcast, Trump's threats to cause nuclear war led her to drop non-essential activities because life is now unpredictable and may end soon. You don't want regrets.
5. People are making great art in response to this time. Great writing, like We Were Eight Years in Power. Great films, like BlackkKlansman. A great internet plugin that replaces every mention of Trump with a different epithet and every photo of him with a picture of kittens. And great late night comedy, like Trevor Noah, Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, Jimmy Kimmel, and Seth Meyers, who have been killing it on a regular basis ever since Trump got in office.

Only 19% of the American people voted for Trump. He may have won, but he is not a winner.