In a recent interview with Breitbart Trump boasted of the ‘toughness’ of his supporters on the right.

“You know, the left plays a tougher game, it’s very funny. I actually think that the people on the right are tougher, but they don’t play it tougher. Okay? I can tell you I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump – I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough — until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad.”

This love, admiration, and longing for ‘toughness’ is a clarion call to violence. It is call that is heard and is welcomed. It was heard by Lt Christopher Hasson, USCG and his alleged plotting to murder Trump’s liberal enemies, it was heard by Cesar Sayoc and his alleged mailing explosive devices to Trump’s liberal enemies, it is heard and taken to heart by racists around the globe. A man who admires the slaughter of the peaceful protesters in China now occupies the White House and despite all this is supported by a major political party because victory overrides all sense of morality, justice, and honor and worst troubles are ahead for our Union.

Is needs to be remembered that in the waning days of the 2016 election Trump busily laid the foundation for rejecting the election likely outcome as a product of fraud and illegitimate. As a losing candidate Trump running around, getting money from suckers, as he frothed about stolen election would have been juts one more reality show for the con-man, but he did not lose. The results shocked he and the nation when even though he lost the popular contest by 3 million votes he won the presidency. To save his overinflated and fragile ego and – ah hem – reputation Trump immediately and insanely attacked the popular vote tally as fraudulent. Now we face something I do not think we have ever faced as a nation, the possibility of a sitting president, one that stokes violence, refusing to accept the outcome of an election.

This national nightmare, and our previous on was nothing more than a shiver from a cold draft, is far from over.