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Definitely. I guess it's why so many people still seem to be floundering. If someone could believe his being elected were only through some horrible miscalculation, a fluke, as was many people's impression in 2016, there's no reason why they couldn't view resistance as a possibility. But to understand that the electorate went out and chose him - again, after everything - must be so utterly dispiriting that whatever further horrors may unfold probably feel like foregone conclusions, and deserved. Although no place is safe unless there are those willing to fight, it's hard to fault the ones with the means to do so who just get up and leave; it's truly wasteland there if he's what the people want.

Frighteningly, there was a report just yesterday about how CEOs at Disney have instructed even the women of The View to tone down their anti-Trump dialogue. Irrespective of how seriously one takes the show, we can safely assume, if that's the direct order they're getting, it has to be true that we have the biggest corporations in the world pathetically kowtowing to him across the board. You're right: the American people are being failed miserably by the media's powers that be.

There's no way insecure and entitled Trump doesn't see it as a direct affront, the one it pretty much is, but maybe he's too frightened of Elon for the moment. Really need for things to kick off between them.