On the last day of December, this was Donald Trump\u2019s greeting for America \u2014 via Twitter, of course:
\u201cHappy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don\u2019t know what to do. Love!\u201d
My immediate response to this infantile tweet from the future president of the United States was to donate to a diaper charity. See? I do know what to do.
Let\u2019s talk about those diapers for a moment. I first wrote about this issue in 2015, after learning that parents \u2014 particularly single mothers \u2014 who cannot afford enough diapers for their babies are likelier to struggle with depression. The need is great, so please consider donating to one of the diaper charities in your community. They\u2019re growing in number, including at some food banks.
Now, let\u2019s address this unparalleled dysfunction about to take over the White House. It\u2019s a remarkable thing, really, for our future president to identify as an enemy to anyone who didn\u2019t vote for him or who dares to challenge him now.
Let\u2019s all sit with that for a moment.
Once again, I am reminded of the late Rev. William Sloane Coffin\u2019s definition of true patriotism:
\u201cThere are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover\u2019s quarrel with their country, a reflection of God\u2019s lover\u2019s quarrel with all the world.\u201d
Mr. Trump, we are not the enemy.
We are the popular majority of voters \u2014 Democrats, Republicans and independents \u2014 who wanted a leader, someone who understands that there\u2019s no such thing as a whisper when one is president-elect and that airing one\u2019s many insecurities through petty, thin-skinned tweets and hashtags is as dangerous for this country as it is pathetic.
We are not the enemy. We are the people of color who wanted a president not prone to trafficking in racist stereotypes about immigrants and black and Latino Americans, someone who doesn\u2019t relish working supporters into mobs with coded language that goads them into seeing anyone who isn\u2019t white as the \u201cother.\u201d
We are not the enemy. We are the people with disabilities, which makes us different, not discardable. We are also their loved ones. We all saw the video of you mocking a New York Times reporter with a congenital joint condition. After the newspaper defended him, you didn\u2019t apologize. Instead, you said, \u201cHe should stop using his disability to grandstand and get back to reporting for a paper that is rapidly going down the tubes.\u201d If you were our child, you would be grounded.
We are not the enemy. We are the media \u2014 the real ones, the journalists, not the propagandists and Russian hackers who helped to make you president. We are the reporters and editors demanding accountability. We are the fact-checkers chronicling your disregard for truth. We are the opinion writers you cannot silence.
In recent weeks, your brigade and too many citizens who are worn-out from the presidential campaign insist it\u2019s time to move on. We should accept that you will be our president, they say. We should give you a chance. As one reader told me earlier this week, it is time to give up the grudge.
Calling out a continued pattern and practice of lies and propaganda is not a grudge match. Resentment does not drive our vigilance in continuing to oppose what we rejected in you as a candidate.
We are patriots, in all our forms. We are committed to championing what already made America great, which includes our First Amendment rights to pursue the truth and say what\u2019s on our minds. We will challenge you as president, as true patriots often do.
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