Bloodletting

Though I certainly am horrified by Trump's election, as a Tai Chi guy I try to always look for opportunities when bad things happen (and unforeseen consequences when good things happen.) There are opportunities created by Trump's election:

• The electoral college, with Hillary having won the popular vote, is now despised by powerful (and most other) people on the left and right.
• Postmodernism - the crippling vice of the left - has been fatally weakened and will hopefully soon die. Self righteous identity politics have been proven an ineffective strategy in the face of representative democracy.
• Facts matter. Don't expect Obamacare to be politically viable as costs on exchanges keep going up 20% per year.
• Political qualifications no longer matter for office. Michelle Obama 2020? Easy.
• Clinton era neoliberalism is clearly dead, with Trump elected on an anti-Globalization platform.
• Bush era neoconservativism is clearly dead, with every Bush family member openly opposing his election.
• Peace is now possible. No matter how much the thought of a white supremacist president enrages me, I can't help but wonder "how many Arabic speaking children will now be saved from American bombs because of this election?"  
• Elections are no longer bought, as Trump was massively outspent by Clinton. The Party with the Most Effective Message Wins. 
• Elections are harder to steal because electability really matters. Clinton clearly underhandedly stole the Democratic nomination from Sanders, as Bearnie Bros warned time and again that Clinton's electability was a huge problem. Sanders represented a landslide victory that would even take Utah in the face of the Trump hatred found there (think "everything west of the Mississippi.") She stole the nomination, we were supposed to be cool with that, and Trump is the price that has to now be paid.
• The youth vote matters. If you ignore what the youth of the country want and need, you are ignoring the future of our country, and they won't vote for you.
• State-level political evolution is guaranteed. Some states will have the laws you want, and others won't, and young people (the future population) will be voting with their feet.
• Trump must act to dismantle Obamacare. Health insurance provided by employers, with labor now politically maimed, will soon be a thing of the past. The last thing he would repeal, if he repeals it at all, would be requirements to take preexisting conditions. First goes the individual mandate, then goes the state boundaries in health care markets. Either of these things alone, if health insurance companies are to be believed, would destroy our current health insurance industry. The only alternatives are single payer or regulated medical fees, either of which amounts to socialized medicine.

On one hand the electorate was supposed to pay for increased global security, while not only needs were neglected at home, but also our own personal security concerns (2nd Amendment) were belittled and ignored. Hopefully the left has learned their lesson and will focus on important relevant issues (single payer, affordable education, and dare I say Universal Basic Income as recently suggested by Musk) instead of political bike-shed such as bathroom equality or gun control: