I disagree wholeheartedly with your daughter on both points. For starters, by winning the presidency, trump automatically throws US international relations into chaos. He says one thing one day, another thing the next (that doesn’t even begin to address his rampant misogyny, racism, etc. etc. etc.), so how the hell can national relations be built on such quicksand? Don’t count on the legislature or the business community to negate trump’s slime. As the saying goes, first they came for the socialists, and I did nothing, because I’m not a socialist…
Beyond that, what does a trump win say to Latinx? Mexico/Mexicans/Mexican-Americans specifically? Muslim-Americans? People who say they believe in addressing or eradicating income inequality in America (ala Sanders) who then turn around to support a billionaire who clearly doesn’t care a whit about people outside his income bracket are not, IMHO, thinking logically, or they’re under other, more sinister reasons (see also: David Duke/trump).
trump needs to be defeated, IIRC as others have pointed out, in the election and not at the convention. If not, then Americans legitimate his batshit crazy statements and we go down the rabbithole of ultranationalist, racist lunacy.
