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“It feels like we are living in a world turned upside down. Sexual abusers and convicted criminals are being nominated to positions of trust and honor. Demagogues who want to destroy the federal government are being granted leading roles in agencies they will seek to destroy. Unqualified, ignorant conspiracy mongers are being entrusted with the health and safety of our children and elderly. Disgruntled and aggrieved “ne’er do-wells” are being placed in charge of the US counterterrorism agencies.”

That is a quote by Robert Hubbell in his December 2 Newsletter that some of you probably read.

It bears repeating because it speaks to both the sheer insanity and immorality of the Trump election in November.

I added “immorality” because of all the ways to describe Trump’s election, immoral seems to me to be the most telling adjective available to describe what his becoming president again represents, even more damning than “insane.”

Let’s not kid ourselves.

If Robert Kennedy, Jr. is confirmed as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, babies and children will die.

That’s not a political opinion. That is what every expert in the field of communicable diseases is saying, Kennedy has campaigned world-wide against childhood vaccines, resulting in a decline in the rate of vaccinations and an increase in the deaths of babies and children.

And Trump wants this man in charge of the decisions that will be made related to keeping our children safe from preventable diseases by means of vaccinations.

That Trump cares so little for the safety of America’s children is why his election was an immoral act on the part of those who voted for him.

Let’s not kid ourselves.

If Pete Hegseth becomes Secretary of Defense, he will be the first person to serve in that positions (or any cabinet post) who was fired from two previous jobs with not-for-profit organizations because of his womanizing and excessive drinking.

And his nomination is why Trump’s election was an immoral act on the part of those who voted for him.

Let’s not kid ourselves.

If Kash Patel becomes FBI Director, he will be the revenge enforcer-in-chief for Trump who wants his opponents persecuted for trying to hold him accountable for committing crimes against our country.

This is what the people who elected Trump voted for, and it was an unequivocal, unambiguous, profoundly immoral act.

People who say they voted for Trump, but not for this stuff are side stepping responsibility for what they did.

Most cite the economy as the reason for their vote. Baloney. Online Black Friday sales last week set a record of 10.8 billion dollars. On top of that, 72% of Trump voters admitted they knew that tariffs Trump promised he would impose would raise prices when they voted for him.

His voters knew exactly what they were getting when they did.

So let’s not kid ourselves.

Donald Trump’s election was an immoral act because it gave him the opportunity to do what he is now doing, beginning with nominating men  and women just like himself to run our government.

When you elect a morally depraved, vengeance driven serial liar so self-centered he is willing to sacrifice the nation’s welfare on the altar of his ego, that’s exactly what you get and everybody knew it before it happened.

And now he is rightly interpreting his victory as an endorsement of not only everything he said he would do, but of who he is as a person. How else, then, can voting for such a man be honestly described other than immoral?

If that is not enough, white evangelical Christians participated in this immoral act, 8 out of 10 of them who voted, to be exact, according to AP VoteCast that conducted a sweeping survey of more than 120,000 voters.

“A great victory” is how Robert Jeffress, evangelical pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, described Trump’s election.

“A great victory” that 8 out of 10 evangelicals helped make it happen. Wow. Christians endorsing immorality in the name of God. Is that taking God’s name in vain or what?

Americans who bother to study history still struggle to understand how the German people, including the pro-Nazi German Christian faction of the German Evangelical Church, ever supported Hitler’s rise to power.

We need look no further than what happened in November here in our own country to find the answer.

Trump is not another Hitler, but he doesn’t have to be to be very, very bad for America, and the world, what with his willingness to persuade people to call evil good and good evil and positioning himself to be seen as the “American Savior” blessed by God to save the nation from “lunatics” who opposed him.

That’s what he called all Americans opposed to him on Thanksgiving Day: “Happy Thanksgiving to all, including to the Radical Left Lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our Country, but who have miserably failed…”

This is the man half the people who voted November 5 elected to be our nation’s “uniter,” the man who is supposed to make America great again. Makes you wonder what they believe “great” means.

No doubt, it was an insane act.

But let’s not kid ourselves. Before he even takes the Oath of Office (which means nothing to him) he is proving that his election was without question a profoundly immoral act, and seeing it for what it is forms the first step in resisting everything he and his MAGA Republican party will try to do for the next four years.

In other words, resistance is both a political necessity and a moral imperative, and we cannot afford to see it any other way.