President-elect Donald Trump’s niece, psychologist Mary Trump, weighed in with her thoughts on the election in her latest email blast — and assured those still hoping to fight authoritarianism that she is still in it against her uncle for the long haul.
Mary Trump has been a prominent critic of the former, now soon-to-be again president, as well as the press for not treating his threat at all times with the seriousness and severity he deserves.
“I don’t think Vice President Kamala Harris could have run a better, more professional, more inspiring campaign. It was nearly flawless, but for many reasons rooted in our dark and desperate and unacknowledged history, too many people refused to buy into her message of hope and unity. Too many people want what Donald Trump has to offer them. It will not serve them well,” she wrote. “I think it’s fair to say it will be much worse for those of us who fought as hard as we could to make sure we never had to wake up to this nightmare. As always, in times of great upheaval, it will be worst for the most vulnerable among us.”
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She is, she said, still facing numbness and a sense of “exquisite detachment” after the election results, because “I really did think we were better than this, and I don’t want to confront the feelings associated with recognizing just how wrong I was” — but that this will ultimately fade away, and when it does, she will be ready to fight.
“I’m not going anywhere,” she wrote. “The Good in Us and Mary Trump Media will be here for the duration. I had hoped we would wake up today with a new mission to keep pressure on [a] new Democratic administration to do everything in its power to strengthen our democracy instead of constantly fighting a rear-guard action against encroaching fascism. Instead, the fascism is here and we have to confront it head-on.”
Her objective, she concluded, “is to be at the leading edge of the fight against the tyranny that will soon engulf what once was the world’s greatest democracy.” And she signed off by vowing, “I pledge my unwavering allegiance to you and to the truth. I will do my best to look squarely in the face of — and guard against — the horrors we will be facing.”