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There’s a lot of reaching out to do. I pray
Trump’s arms are long enough
As I travelled thousands
of miles round the country these past few months, encouraging Americans to
register and vote, everywhere I went – from rural hamlets to big cities and
everything in between – I encountered a profound and tremendous amount of
economic consternation. It was so thick and heavy in the air that I could taste
it – a steaming bowl of bitter Brexit stew, full of fear, despair and anger.
So while I was stunned by how our ugly presidential campaign of 2016 ended, I
was not surprised that after a long and harrowing election night, that went from
amazing grace to disgrace
Donald Trump, the brash billionaire, came down from his gilded Manhattan
tower to be elected the 45th president of the United States.
Now he must prove he is worthy of the office by immediately going to work
uniting the country he has done so much to divide. He must start rebuilding the
bridges he has spent the past 18 months burning down with his fiery rhetoric and
late-night tweets. He must reach out to the Latino and immigrant community and
end his divisive talk of high walls and mass deportations. He must reach out to
women and disabled people, both targets of his vicious barbs and crude language.
He must reach out to African Americans, whom he all but ignored. He must end his
Muslim bashing at home and abroad.
He has a lot of reaching out to do. For the sake of the country and the
world, I pray his arms are long enough. Yet, reaching out is not enough. He must
also embrace and include those he has pushed away. He needs to preach and
practise a one big tent America.
But much of the country now feels caught in a deep hole of fear and
disappointment. Based on Trump’s campaign rhetoric and the Republican party
platform, the social, racial and economic progress America has made over recent
decades is in danger: gender equality, the fight for a living wage, affordable
healthcare, the struggle for sensible gun control laws, immigration reform and
the regeneration of urban communities.
We can only hope he will not govern the way he campaigned – a steady diet of
retrograde fantasies and divisive talk about taking the country back. Back to
where? When
Jim Crow and American apartheid ruled the land; when women could not vote or
serve on juries?
I have known Trump for years and, until this bruising campaign, always
thought him a decent man. We had our political differences, but I was surprised
he turned so quickly and sharply to the right in his quest for power. It
saddened and alarmed me that his words resonated so deeply with the racist right
that the Ku Klux Klan’s leading newspaper
endorsed him.
There is no doubt that Trump played the race card, dealing from the bottom of
the deck most often when it came to Mexican immigrants. But he also tapped into
some of the legitimate fears that many blue collar and middle-class Americans
have about the future.
It was easy pickings. There are too many Americans
working harder for less, too many temporary and part-time workers, too many
people who have never recovered from the recovery. It is time to move from
political battleground to economic and social common ground. I hope Trump does
not continue to get lost in the thicket of political and racial resentments.
The forces of reaction that rallied to his side will
undoubtedly be emboldened by the election. But the tug of war for the soul of
America is far from over. Therefore, the progressive coalition of conscience
that sent Barack Obama to the White House eight years ago against all odds, and
came so close to sending Hillary Clinton there this time, cannot afford to be
discouraged and retreat to the sidelines.
Still, we must be willing to give the president elect
a chance, a fair shot to be the inclusive commander in chief the country and the
world needs him to be.
If he fails to do that, however, we must do what we
have done so many times in the past to make America great: resist evil,
inequality and discrimination until, as Martin Luther King said, “justice rolls
down like water … in a mighty stream”.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/09/donald-trump-america-jesse-jackson