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The Absolute Last Advice You Should Listen to After the Election

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Frida Ghitis: A former Democratic congressman urged Americans to be gracious and magnanimous.

She says some pundits have called for normalization of Donald Trump's presidency.

Ghitis says the question is whether or not the left will grow up, stop whining, and start referring to Trump as "Mr. President" She says in times of true crisis, magnanimity is the privilege of those happy collaborators who are secure in the belief that they will be OK no matter what.

All of us reading this right now were alive during Trump ’s cruel, incompetent presidency, and all of us saw what happened on Jan. 6, 2021 .

We know from experience that he basically ruins everything he touches; we know from observation that he is exclusively focused on his own self-interest.

A hell of a lot of people who voted for Trump yesterday know it too, and they like it. They like the bluster and the imprecision; they like the bigotry and the transphobia .