Authoritarians like Trump love fear, defeatism, surrender. Do not give them what they want

Almost everything we love is going to be under siege in the US in ways that will affect the world in many ways.

People too often think hope is smiles and sunshine, when it’s fury in the face of danger and oppression, and pressing on in the storm.

But I do not want to talk about hope today , because people so often confuse it with optimism which assumes everything will be fine.

There will be practical opportunities to take care of what you love, including donating, participating, and supporting the ways that towns, counties, states, and public institutions and private organisations can and do set their own policies.

Blue states may become refuges for those from red states and already have when it comes to reproductive rights.

Finding community, and building and strengthening relationships, with people you trust and agree with about moral and political issues is also important.

The US is an uneasy cobbling together of different constituencies by race, class, gender and culture.

Those who have been subordinated have exemplified heroic resistance all along.

Geronimo and Frederick Douglass , Ady Barkan and Harvey Milk , Audre Lorde and Grace Lee Boggs are examples of heroic resistance.