It’s been fascinating—truly—to watch the flood of Donald Trump voters posting their regrets on social media.
Tears over lost jobs. Anguish over deported loved ones. Rage over slashed benefits. “I regret voting for him,” they wail. But my question is simple: why?
Trump told you exactly what he was going to do. He didn’t hide it. He screamed it at rallies, tweeted it in all caps and signed executive orders to make it law. Yet, many of you still cast your vote thinking what—he didn’t mean it? That you would somehow be exempt from the policies meant to harm “other” people?
Now, we’re in the finding out phase.
The just and the unjust will feel it
The cruelty of policies doesn’t discriminate when it comes for the people who voted them into existence. Sure, they may have been packaged as “tough on immigration,” “draining the swamp” and “cutting government waste,” but that always translated into real people losing their jobs, their homes and their healthcare. It was never just about “them”—whoever you thought “them” was.
Did you think job losses would only hit immigrants? That when corporations felt empowered to cut costs, they wouldn’t come for you too? That when aid was slashed for the “lazy” and the “undeserving,” they wouldn’t redefine that category to include your struggling family? That when healthcare was gutted, your pre-existing condition would somehow be overlooked?
That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.
The war on diversity
And now, with the latest attack on diversity initiatives in education, some of you are shocked that your children’s scholarships, your race-based affinity groups and your cultural academic programs are suddenly at risk. Yes, according to EducationData.org 57% of Black students get Pell Grants. But so do 34% of white students. Did you believe that they were only getting rid of the Black money?
