President-Elect Trump is the first presidential candidate since Grover Cleveland to win two non-consecutive terms, and, also worth noting — he is the first in U.S. history to win an election while waiting to be sentenced on 34 criminal counts.
Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor and political activist, had this to say:
“I won’t try to hide it. I’m heartbroken. Heartbroken and scared, to tell you the truth. I’m sure many of you are, too. Donald Trump has decisively won the presidency, the Senate, and possibly the House of Representatives and the popular vote, too. I still have faith in America. But right now, that’s little comfort to the people who are most at risk.”
“We supported one another during the Great Depression,” Reich remembers. “We were victorious over Hitler’s fascism and Soviet communism. We survived Joe McCarthy’s witch-hunts, Richard Nixon’s crimes, Lyndon Johnson’s Vietnam War, the horrors of 9/11, and George W. Bush’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We will resist Donald Trump’s tyranny.”