I didn't vote for him. I'd never vote for him.

He may've won, but we're prepared to fight, and ol' Bernie's gonna be watching him closely.

Eh i never liked him but since hes "President" imma give him a chance and if he screws up, He'll hear it from America : P

For me personally it's an anti-Hillary thing.

I would've much rather preferred Bernie but he got screwed over by the corruption inside the DNC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLG9g7BcjKs This video pretty accurately sums up the reasoning behind why people voted Trump, I think.

Despite considering myself left on almost all counts, the political left doesn't even slightly represent my views anymore. I could not find it within myself to vote for Clinton just because she was the Democratic candidate.

Wow that video is brilliant and represents my views pretty spot-on as well. I voted for Bernie in the primary, he got fucked by a corrupt selfish self-centered DNC establishment, and we got fucked in turn. Combine that with years of being shamed and guilted into silence for having moderate opinions and wanting to debate out of a fear of being disowned by all your friends, and this is natural and I don't regret it at all.

ehh... hillary was very corrupted but I couldn't make up my mind.

Quite frankly I believe it's a little early for people to regret voting Trump

I voted Jill because Trump is an ass and Hillary is similar to Bush when it comes to destabilizing foreign states, causing many deaths.

Hillary manipulated the LGBT community, filled it with soo much fear to get their votes that it drove people to suicide upon Trump's victory.

Look at how much damage establishment propaganda did to the left, you see how it has poisoned people's discourse, saying others are terrible things instinctively, opposed to communication, many you follow(and even yourself) have been altered by it.

The moderate left is the majority but seems like the minority with furries, many idiots on the far ends of the political spectrum screaming cuck and pissbaby.

I'm French but if i had been able to vote to the US elections i would have voted Trump. Being from a deeply political country i have the feeling that the brutality of Trump in his declarations were just a mean to impose himself in the primaries of the republican party (and this has been confirmed in an interview that André Bercoff managed to obtain from him). I'm also pleased that he is pragmatic when all the other candidates would have said that only one type of solution mattered (only capitalist solutions for other republicans, only social solutions for the democrats) which means that he will analyse the problems and take resolve it at its roots without being hindered by political beliefs (even if it doesn't affect me, his plan to renegotiate the debt of the US students is really a good thing, students shouldn't have to start in life with debts). Overall his economical program is like a New Deal version 2016 and given the state of (for example) the canalisations of the US i think it was about time that at least some attention was given to such an health matter. Now for the international part : He's an isolationist and a protectionist so goodbye free-trade agreements dealt in the back of the concerned nations, plus instead of searching a war with China in the pacific Ocean and Russia in Europe by using NATO he will take off the gloves and allow the coordination of the war effort to end ISIS which will secure the world stability for 4 years. Of course there is always the risk that he will bend against the congress and the senate where republicans and democrats can be tempted to ally against him as well as the financial entities like Wall Street or the City. Either way it's a great blow given to system that is eating on our back for far too long

My gravest concern with Trump in office is that his presence, his victory -- empowers every self-righteous bigot in the country to go for, burn black churches, chase Latinos into the streets, harass everybody under the LGBT cusp, and bully everybody who doesn't agree with them. Then we have people like Mike Pence who wants to basically reverse every protection for transfolk and trans children out there, employing conversion therapy. This is also going to encourage an enormous amount of families out there who don't know any better to agree to such ideology.

That said, there's going to be a lot of trans blood on the hands of Americans... A LOT more than what we've seen... I'm terrified for that.

The amount of bullying for political reasons is going to be staggering on both sides, but it's the rest of us who want nothing to do with that who is going to suffer this country's brutal attitude about 'sucking it up', 'quit crying liberal bitch', and 'get rekt sjw trash'. I see it a lot as it is, and it's going to become a general pejorative towards everybody who can and will suffer from this election. I've seen tons of right-wing conservatives telling people to just shut up, leave the country, nobody wants them, stop bitching and get over it, and frankly that in of itself is pretty well aligned with fascism in its own small way. It sends a message that we aren't free to express our fear and outrage in a country founded on the idea of fighting against the system. It sends an idea that we must bow to imperialism out of respect and given mercy for something we never fought for. Something 60/70 something years ago, we would have fought tooth and nail against.

I'm worried even saying this much is going to earn a ton of hateful rhetoric, backlash, and harassment. I'm worried being trans openly is going to get me in serious danger, more than ever before. Like... Republicans, conservatives, right-wingers, understand why we didn't vote for him. It's because the violence his opinions, statements publicly, and his policies encourage. A lot of you are telling us as a nation to stop whining about being marginalized by the fringe in your party. It's kind of hard to ignore oppression when that's been the standard system against us for longer than most of us want to remember. We're hated, even considered demons by some of the religious alt-right. It's fucked up.

It's really fucked up... Believe me, if I could, I WOULD leave out of fear for safety. People tell the rest of us we should fight, but how do you do that in an indirect democracy that has had a bias against us from the beginning?

Long story short, I don't feel safe because of Trump and his constituents... There's pretty solid, undeniable reasoning behind it. And people are gonna come out of the woodworks and tell me that's not how it is. I'd sincerely like to believe that, I would, but I'm quite well aware of what has been said on live, unedited speeches. None of it was a lie. And that endangers many of us.

I'll be frank. Trump is a sex offender, a big it, and a jerk, but even he is capable of niceness every now and then.

Pence I'd the one i'm worried about. He's been confirmed to fund conversion "therapy" for LGBT folks.

Considering I'm one of those people, that scares me..

to quote what my father (A Canadian military man)
"I am not surprised he won. There was one guy I remember back in the 30's. No one took him seriously at first, but after a while he owned all of europe. Trump appealed to the same kinds of people using much the same tactics this man had. I think his name was.....ah yes, Adolf"

It amazes me still that people genuinely believe that he's "literally Hitler" and that he wants to do things like put LGBT folks in camps or other ridiculous assertions, after he literally waved the LGBT flag at one of his rallies