J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: Transition Tales: Draining the Swamp Won’t be as Easy as You Think.

EXCELLENT ADVICE: “A wise move for Trump would be outreach to state legislatures to start backfires of support for his agenda.”

SAFE BET:

El Predicto sez the press will suddenly awaken… to:

The elderly and the paltry return on CD’s and other fixed income;
The homeless;
The huge numbers on food stamps and other forms of welfare;
The shrinking real income of working stiffs;
Every job relocated over seas; and
The real unemployment rate.

YEP.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: “Tolerant” educators exile Trump voters from campus.

In an email to students, the University of Michigan’s President, Mark Schlissel, wrote: “Our responsibility is to remain committed to education, discovery and intellectual honesty — and to diversity, equity and inclusion. We are at our best when we come together to engage respectfully across our ideological differences; to support ALL who feel marginalized, threatened or unwelcome; and to pursue knowledge and understanding.”

But when you treat an election in which the “wrong” candidate wins as a traumatic event on a par with the 9/11 attacks, calling for counseling and safe spaces, you’re implicitly saying that everyone who supported that “wrong” candidate is, well, unsafe. Despite the talk about diversity and inclusion, this is really sending the signal that people who supported Trump — and Trump carried the state of Michigan, so there are probably quite a few on campus — aren’t really included in acceptable campus culture. It’s not promoting diversity, it’s enforcing uniformity. It’s not promoting inclusion, it’s practicing exclusion. And, though it pretends to be about nurturing, it’s actually about being mean to those who don’t fall in the nurtured class. Schlissel says he wants the University of Michigan to be “a welcoming place for all members of society,” but how welcome can students who backed Trump feel in the wake of this performance?

Not very.

FLASHBACK: President Obama to Republicans: I won. Deal with it. “Go out there and win an election.”

I THINK THAT ONE OF THE THINGS A LOT OF POLITICAL PROFESSIONALS HOLD AGAINST TRUMP IS THAT he spent a lot less money than Hillary on political professionals and still won big. That’s got to hurt their market. I remember when they were saying he was running a “fake campaign” because he had so few staff and such small ad buys. . . .

BUZZFEED LOOKS AT WHO’S BEHIND THE ANTI-TRUMP PROTESTS: “Along with the anarchists, core organizers of the protests have included the ANSWER Coalition, a group with roots that trace back to supporting the Soviet invasion of Hungary in the 1950s, and the Socialist Alternative, a Trotskyist group on the other side of those forgotten Communist civil wars. Those groups’ organizing muscle has long made them important, if controversial, elements of the US left (they were central to protests against the Iraq War in 2003), and they now find themselves marching with Bernie Sanders supporters, civil rights advocates, and thousands of Democrats shocked at Trump’s election.”

More here.

THE SECOND AMENDMENT PROTECTS “ARMS,” NOT JUST GUNS: New Jersey Attorney General Concedes NJ Stun Gun Ban Is Unconstitutional.

I talk about this in my Second Amendment Limitations piece.