Nothing.
Most people are disengaged from the political process.
Every four years, they’ll summon up a little interest, decide if they feel threatened and maybe vote. After a pretty successful few decades of social progress, the innately conservative who dislike change felt slightly more threatened and those who felt a little more comfortable felt slightly less, and that was enough to tip the balance.
In four years, it’s pretty likely that the balance will tip back.
Unless, those who voted for him feel that they are so personally under attack that a few percent more will bother to vote for his re-election (if he survives in office that long).
Welcome to democracy :-). The vast, vast majority care a lot less than any of us.
So, my take is oppose the policies and don’t refer to the voters at all. Don’t call them evil, stupid or malevolent. Don’t hate them. Don’t spend your time worrying about them. Don’t call them anything at all.
After all, in 4 years, they’ll spend another half an hour making choice, and I’d prefer not to have part of their choice be affected by the knowledge that a significant part of the country has a vitriolic hatred of them based on the a snap decision they made 4 years earlier.
For almost everyone, politics is just not that big a deal. A fact that drives me nuts, but is pretty fundamental to life in a prosperous democracy.
Anyway, most of the battles in my life have been won not by triumphing over the enemy, but simply consistently going after a goal without ever giving the opposition enough emotional ammunition to make it worthwhile for them to stay in the game. Eventually they lose interest and wander away. No celebrations, no victory parties. Just things slowly getting better with some occasional back-sliding.
Not at all emotionally satisfying. But progress over years and decades.
Anyway, I’ve only faced Trump-super-lite (aka former mayor Rob Ford), so obviously things are far iffier south of the border. But that’s how I (a safe member of the urban elite) approached the numerous Ford supporters and how I’d hope I’d have the strength to face the Trump situation. (I knew not a one Trump fan, not even among the Canadian right-wingers I fraternize with…)
