THEY REALLY, REALLY REALLY WANT A MONARCHY: Step One: FAIL.

I AIN’T WAITING WITH SANDWICHES BY THE PHONE: In Trump’s America, social justice warriors need to do the one thing they hate.

SO, WHAT IS SHE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? NYT’s public editor is right. Its 2016 coverage could have been better.

WHEN REPUBLICANS USED OBAMA’S MIDDLE NAME, THEY WERE CALLED RACIST: If these people had no double standards, they would have no standards at all. Poor Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III.

FUTURE GENERATIONS WILL LAUGH AT OUR PRESIDENTS HAVING A “CLIMATE PLAN”: No, really. Trump’s climate plan might not be so bad after all.

YEAH, I TOO WANT TO TELL THEM ‘FORGET IT, THE BOAT SANK’: Political Religion.

DO YOU WANT A CIVIL WAR? THIS IS HOW YOU GET A CIVIL WAR: We don’t elect individual electors, people we trust to “vote their conscience.”  We vote for people we don’t even know to do nothing else than  carry our vote.  They do this, they’re invalidating everyone’s votes and abrogating to themselves the right to choose who’ll govern.  Government by the electors over the people is NOT what this republic is about.  Will you tolerate this?  The Hail Mary pass that could deny Donald Trump the presidency: It’s up to you, electors.

CHANGE: Venezuela’s Nemesis Is a Hardware Salesman at a Home Depot in Alabama.

Public Enemy No. 1 of Venezuela’s revolutionary government is Gustavo Díaz, a Home Depot Inc. employee in central Alabama.

On his lunch breaks from the hardware section, Mr. Díaz, 60 years old, does more than anyone else to set the price of everything from rice to aspirin to cars in his native Venezuela, influencing the inflation rate and swaying millions of dollars of daily currency transactions.

How? He is president of one of Venezuela’s most popular and insurgent websites, DolarToday.com, which provides a benchmark exchange rate used by his compatriots to buy and sell black-market dollars. That allows them to bypass some of the world’s most rigid currency controls.

Someone should really write a book on this phenomenon.

SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: Here’s How the ‘Hamilton’ Cast Reacted When Hillary Clinton Attended their Show.

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REALITY ASSERTS ITSELF: Acknowledging domestic terror threat, Pentagon says troops, recruiters can carry concealed guns.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Space Age comeback: One of Obama’s successes was bringing capitalism into outer space. Trump should follow his lead.

TRUMP RELEASES A YOUTUBE VIDEO outlining his plans for his first 100 days. Bypassing the media gatekeepers with YouTube. (Bumped).

THEY THREW EVERYTHING THEY HAD AT HIM AND THEY FAILED. So Trump’s meeting with the press lords goes exactly as you’d expect. “The meeting was a total disaster. The TV execs and anchors went in there thinking they would be discussing the access they would get to the Trump administration, but instead they got a Trump-style dressing down.”

The press’s special institutional place in the post-World War II era has stemmed from two things: The belief that it had a lot of power, and the belief that it would use that power more or less responsibly. This election cycle changed both beliefs, at least in Trump’s mind and the minds of his voters.

Note that he’s making nice with the head of Black Entertainment Television, though. . . .

UPDATE: Dear Media: Drop Dead — Love, Donald J. Trump. “The media, like the Hun, is always either at your feet or at your throat. Let’s see which way the titans of Sixth Avenue fall.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Your Guide To The 60 New Members of Congress.

MARC THIESSEN: ‘Hamilton’ and the implosion of the American left.

Hey Democrats, want help to rally the country around Donald Trump? Here’s a great idea: Have a crowd of wealthy, out-of-touch Manhattan liberals (who can afford $849 tickets to “Hamilton”) boo Vice President-elect Mike Pence while the cast of the Broadway show lectures him on diversity.

The Democratic Party’s alienation from the rest of America was on full display at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Friday night. And the left seems completely oblivious to how ridiculous it looks to the rest of the United States. Professors at Yale and Columbia universities and other elite schools postpone exams and cancel classes for students who could not deal with the election results. Kids in Washington schools cut class with tacit approval from administrators to march in protest of the results of a free and fair election. School officials in Montgomery County offer grief counselors to “help students process any concerns or feelings they have about the election.” (Funny, I don’t recall anyone canceling exams or offering my kids grief counselors when Barack Obama was elected).

People in the American heartland see all this, and they shake their heads in disgust. Today’s Democrats have become a party of coastal elites completely disconnected from the rest of America.

And, seemingly, smug about it.

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NEWS FROM EUROPE: France Arrests 7 Suspected of Plotting Major Terrorist Attack. “Much of Europe is now reaping what decades of bad immigration policy have sown, most notably France and Germany. Concerns regarding what has come of that are currently being reflected in French politics, where Marine Le Pen is hoping to pull off the next surprise of the Brexit/Trump variety. As with Brexit and Trump, the polls are telling a different story.”

CHANGE: Trump’s Popularity Has Spiked: Welcome To The Honeymoon Phase. Frankly, I think the lefty freakoutrage has helped a lot.

SCIENCE: Another Awesome Study Confirms Beer Is Actually Good for You.

You wouldn’t want to argue with science, would you?

RELATED: Barley dormancy mutation suggests beer motivated early farmers.

That’s right — beer is partly responsible for civilization. There really is nothing it can’t do.

NATURE IS RED IN TOOTH AND CLAW: Sorry to ruin your dreams, but that dog-petting polar bear just ate a husky alive.

I WONDER HOW MANY WILL ACTUALLY LEAVE? Sessions pick as AG could spark exodus from civil rights division. I mean, so far nobody who’s promised to leave the country if Trump was elected has gone anywhere, and wasn’t it like 25% of federal employees who said they’d quit if Trump won? How many have turned in resignation letters so far?

UPDATE: From the comments: “Here’s a suggestion – appoint J. Christian Adams head of the OCR [Office of Civil Rights]. He knows the slackers, he knows the ideologues, he knows who is actually unbiased, and he knows who needs to go.”

MAYBE TRUMP REALLY IS A “MASTER PERSUADER” LIKE SCOTT ADAMS SAYS: BET founder, after meeting with Trump, says black Americans should give president-elect a shot. “Black Americans should have no permanent friends, and no permanent enemies, just permanent interests.”

This kind of talk has to be the Democrats’ worst nightmare.

PAUL KRUGMAN ON ELECTION NIGHT: “If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.”

WSJ, tonight: “The S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq Composite climbed to a trifecta of records Monday as stocks extended their postelection rally.”