From Infidel753:
If you’ve come here hoping for some crumbs of reassurance, you had best look elsewhere. I have none to offer. There is no honest way to put a positive spin on this.
Obama’s accomplishments will be destroyed. Obamacare will be repealed and the millions of newly-insured people will be thrown out in the cold again (it hardly matters whether the Republicans bother to “replace” it with some half-assed scheme of their own). The nuclear agreement with Iran will be abrogated and our government will likely make that country a primary foreign scapegoat, returning relations to pre-Rouhani enmity if not worse. The US will abandon the Paris climate agreement and return to reckless exploitation of fossil fuels and official denial about global warming.
It will go further than that. The Supreme Court will be packed with activist ideological wingnuts who will remain long after Trump is gone. Gay marriage, abortion rights, minority voting rights, separation of church and state, and what few institutional protections workers still have are all in serious danger. Even Social Security and Medicare could eventually be destroyed (“privatized”). Ethnic and religious minorities will come under attack, not only from hostile government policy but also from a racist subculture massively emboldened by Trump’s victory.