YES ,IT IS REALLY THAT AWFUL.

The reason it is important to constantly remind people Hillary Clinton won by over 2 million votes is that this gives the Democrats the mad ate to resist Trump's awfulness.

Paul Krugman earlier this week wrote about how the "privatizing Medicare" would be the worst campaign promise betrayal in our history. Josh Marshall today writes about why this is so important in terms of intergenerational finances. Social security and Medicare allowed a younger generation not to be trapped by impoverished parents so as to buy homes and afford college for their children.

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III as Attorney General would gut the Civil Rights unit of DOJ and ensure the Voting Rights Act would be permanently gutted. Again Josh Marshall was on top of this. Sessions was for the KKK until he found out they smoked dope. This week he said he was joking. He had been denied a judgeship under Reagan because his own GOP colleagues though him too racist.

This morning Reince Preibus said Trump would not rule out a Muslim register. 

The last three day even the straight media have been raising the scores of conflict of interests of Trump and his whole family. In todays' NYT, Zephyr Teachout wrote a small piece on the "emolument clause" of the constitution which prohibits a President from receiving gifts , titles or money from a foreign entity. The Washington Post examines how Trump's hotel provides a problem in this case because foreign diplomats are booking rooms to curry favors with the Trump administration.

Bill McKibben writes in Readers Supported News that Trump has to choose between his domestic friends and upholding the Paris Climate Accords. If Trump abrogates the Paris Accord,various countries have resolved placing a carbon tax on American imports.  Trade war in another form.

In Peru, Obama recited his accomplishments before the Asian Pacific Economic Council. The Canadians said TPP was dead and the Chinese warned Trump he had to maintain free markets. In the meeting, countries felt China was the new global guarantor of free trade.

The Former head of the NSA said that Trump's National Security Advisor was not up to the job. The Obama administration wants to remove the present NSA chief because of the massive leaks by an employee and the fact the man went to New York to plead for his job with Trump.

Trump has been doing personal business during the transition . He met with an Indian firm with his daughter Ivanka. He then met with the Prime Minister of Japan again with his daughter and two sons in their capacity of being part of the transition team.

The New York Times reports that Obama will get back into the fray after the inauguration. He told aides he had planned to give Hillary the keys and taking off but he cares about democracy  enough not to be silent.