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Why a Trump presidency will not create a 'new normal'

Over the last 50 years, African Americans, women, LGBT people, those with disabilities, and immigrants of whatever documentation status have all fought, and organised, and loved too long to give up now.

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President-elect Donald Trump's back is turned. Carolyn Kaster AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.

The night after the election, this long-time pacifist dreamed she shot a big white man carrying an arsenal of guns. He was wandering around a room full of people, waving a pistol and threatening to fire. Someone pushed a gun into my hand and said, “Shoot now, while his back is turned!” I shot. Blood seeped from a hole in his back. He fell. I woke up stunned.

And the election results had not changed.