Bella Hadid Joins the 2016 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show (VIDEO)

Watch, at V.S., "Bella Hadid is walking the 2016 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in Paris—for the first time ever! Watch as she attends casting in New York City, and awaits the exciting news."

Bryiana Noelle in Motion (VIDEO)

At Playboy, "12 Sexy Photos of Miss September 2013 Bryiana Noelle."

More, "Bryiana Noelle: Miss September 2013."

Why Trump Won

From VDH, at the Hoover Institution:

Throughout the course of the 2016 election, the conventional groupthink was that the renegade Donald Trump had irrevocably torn apart the Republican Party. His base populism supposedly sandbagged more experienced and electable Republican candidates, who were bewildered that a “conservative” would dare to pander to hoi polloi by promising deportations of illegal aliens, renegotiation of trade agreements that “ripped off” working people, and a messy attack on the reigning political correctness.

It was also a common complaint that Trump had neither political nor military experience. He trash-talked his way into the nomination, critics said, which led to defections among the outraged Republican elite. By August, a #NeverTrump movement had taken root among many conservatives, including some at National Review, The Weekly Standard, and the Wall Street Journal. Many neoconservatives who formerly supported President George W. Bush flipped parties, openly supporting the Clinton candidacy.

Trump’s Republican critics variously disparaged him as, at best, a Huey Long or Ross Perot, whose populist message was antithetical to conservative principles of unrestricted trade, open-border immigration, and proper personal comportment. At worse, a few Republican elites wrote Trump off as a dangerous fascist akin to Mussolini, Stalin, or Hitler.

For his part, Trump often sounded bombastic and vulgar. By October, after the Access Hollywood video went viral, many in the party were openly calling for him to step down. Former primary rivals like Jeb Bush and John Kasich reneged on their past oaths to support the eventual Republican nominee and turned on Trump with a vengeance.

By the end of the third debate, it seemed as if Trump had carjacked the Republican limousine and driven it off a cliff. His campaign seemed indifferent to the usual stuff of an election run—high-paid handlers, a ground game, polling, oppositional research, fundraising, social media, establishment endorsements, and celebrity guest appearances at campaign rallies. Pundits ridiculed his supposedly “shallow bench” of advisors, a liability that would necessitate him crawling back to the Republican elite for guidance at some point.

What was forgotten in all this hysteria was that Trump had brought to the race unique advantages, some of his own making, some from finessing naturally occurring phenomena. His advocacy for fair rather than free trade, his insistence on enforcement of federal immigration law, and promises to bring back jobs to the United States brought back formerly disaffected Reagan Democrats, white working-class union members, and blue-dog Democrats—the “missing Romney voters”—into the party. Because of that, the formidable wall of rich electoral blue states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, and North Carolina crumbled.

Beyond that, even Trump’s admitted crudity was seen by many as evidence of a street-fighting spirit sorely lacking in Republican candidates that had lost too magnanimously in 1992, 2008, and 2016 to vicious Democratic hit machines. Whatever Trump was, he would not lose nobly, but perhaps pull down the rotten walls of the Philistines with him. That Hillary Clinton never got beyond her email scandals, the pay-for-play Clinton Foundation wrongdoing, and the Wikileaks and Guccifer hackings reminded the electorate that whatever Trump was or had done, he at least had not brazenly broken federal law as a public servant, or colluded with the media and the Republican National Committee to undermine the integrity of the primaries and sabotage his Republican rivals...

More.

One thing you don't hear as much these days is how folks said they liked Trump because they wanted a fighter. They wanted someone who would fully push back against the left. That's what I always loved about Trump and I saw in him a chance to destroy radical progressivism. I'm happy to say it's a new day. We might not get everything we want, but there's no denying it's a new era in American politics, and the radical left has been badly sidelined.

Even if that's just for four years that's good enough to help preserve our country for decades. Leftists are again going to have to go back to the drawing board to mount a sustained power grab to match this last eight years. It's glorious.

Bwahaha! European Union Meets to 'Rethink' Defense Policy Under Donald Trump Administration

The E.U. is the epitome of the unaccountable elite, and now these despicable hacks are hating life.

I love it.

At the link is Federica Mogherini, the Italian Marxist who's been pushing an Islamo-communist agenda since she came to power as an E.U. apparatchik.

Fuck 'em.

At WSJ, "EU Meets to Rethink Defense Options Under Trump Presidency":

BRUSSELS — European foreign and defense ministers met Monday to approve ways of expanding their security cooperation as pressure builds on Europe to increase its own military spending with the election of Donald Trump.

Expanding European defense cooperation has long been controversial, with a number of proposals in the past blocked by Britain, which preferred to work to strengthen security through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

But Britain’s decision to leave the European Union and now the election of Mr. Trump has given fresh impetus to the EU to come up with new plans for security cooperation. In his presidential campaign, Mr. Trump has questioned the relevance of the NATO military alliance and suggested American military support could be conditional on European defense spending.

Federica Mogherini, the EU’s foreign policy chief, has said Europe must develop strategic autonomy, an ability to act independently of the U.S.

“We have a lot of potential that we don’t utilize yet,” Ms. Mogherini said Monday. “There is a need to strengthen our security profile.”

According to a draft statement, due to be published later Monday, foreign and defense ministers said they were committed to strengthening the EU’s ability to act as a security provider: “This will enhance its global strategic role and its capacity to act autonomously when and where necessary and with partners wherever possible.”

Still, forging consensus in the EU is difficult, and divisions remain in the bloc over how to increase defense spending or create new military capabilities.

Concerns by a number of countries over the need to avoid duplication with NATO have resulted in a watered-down proposal for a military headquarters. The EU is now proposing a strategic group that could plan and oversee training missions but not conduct peacekeeping or other military operations.

The new EU plan focuses on how to improve and speed up such military training missions, leaving so-called collective defense planning to NATO.

In the short term, the most meaningful step forward by the EU will likely not be a new initiative, but simply utilizing its standing battle groups. Nations contribute a battalion of forces for six-month periods so that the EU always has a crisis-response team ready, but the EU has never used the force.

However, Monday’s statement contains a number of other initiatives that could over time significantly enhance the bloc’s defense cooperation.

The bloc will review its rules with an eye to increasing the amount of common EU funding available for covering the cost of its overseas civilian and military missions. It will study options for making the rules for deploying the battle groups more flexible and for ensuring the crisis-response teams are better equipped to respond to specific crises.

The EU will also hold regular leaders’ summits on defense and security and conduct an annual ministerial review of how the EU is doing to build greater defense capabilities. And it will look at the options for allowing a group of EU member states to set up a permanent defense structure that can build up the bloc’s defense readiness.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Monday’s decisions are a key moment in developing the bloc’s potential...

More.

Outpouring of Anger Has Little Recent Parallel (VIDEO)

It's the shock of it all. Leftist thought they had it in the bag, that, combines with the utter repudiation of the depraved far-left ideology, and it's really set them off.

At LAT, "Tempers on both sides flare in California after Trump's unexpected election victory":

A Bay Area teacher was put on leave for comparing President-elect Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. A woman speaking Assyrian on a Bay Area Rapid Transit train was accosted by another passenger who told her, “Trump might deport you.”

Some Latino students in Northern California were given mock “deportation letters” by a classmate. And a high school student in San Mateo County was given a bloody nose after voicing support for Trump on Instagram.

In the days since Trump was elected president of the United States, one thing has been certain in this divided country: Tensions are high.

The outpouring of anger has little recent historic parallel, said John J. Pitney, a professor of American politics at Claremont McKenna College and a former Republican policy aide. Pitney said the closest comparison was with the election of 1800 in which Thomas Jefferson defeated John Adams in a bitterly waged campaign that included the candidates trading insults.

For many people, this year’s election was less a choice between two candidates than about whether voters felt they would have a place in America, he said.

“A lot of people didn’t just see this election as a matter of political choice but a matter of identity,” Pitney said. “On the one hand, many of the people who voted for Trump see themselves as forgotten and disrespected, and many of the people who are against Trump see themselves as groups under threat. Feelings are going to run very hot.”

Demonstrators across the country have blocked streets in protest of the president-elect. On Saturday, some 8,000 people marched from MacArthur Park to downtown Los Angeles, shouting “Not my president!” as they formed one of the nation’s largest demonstrations so far. Hundreds more peacefully rallied in Hollywood on Sunday.

In other instances, demonstrating has turned ugly. Los Angeles police arrested hundreds of protesters who marched in downtown L.A. in recent days, saying they vandalized property, blocked roads, hurled bottles and refused to disperse. Taggers scrawled anti-Trump messages and profanity on downtown buildings, tunnels, sidewalks — even on a television news van and a police cruiser.

Anxiety has been so high that calls to anti-suicide and crisis hotlines have spiked since the votes were counted.

Steve Mendelsohn, deputy executive director of The Trevor Project, a West Hollywood-based organization that provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ people, said his organization has seen a dramatic increase in calls and messages this week.

“Over 95% of those who called mentioned Donald Trump,” Mendelsohn said. “The general theme was anxiety and fear.”

They worried about potential bullying, their healthcare and whether gay marriage would be reversed, he said. On Wednesday and Thursday, the organization received 688 calls and messages. On the same days last year, they got 307 such contacts, he said.

Fernando Guerra, a political scientist and director of the Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University, said the surprise outcome of the election, which many polls had predicted would be won by Democrat Hillary Clinton, is a major factor in the intense reactions.

“So many groups were told this wasn’t going to happen, both Trump and Clinton supporters,” Guerra said. “Both are shocked.”

Guerra said that while he thinks the protests are “a great outlet for a lot of people feeling threatened and emotionally displaced,” the large demonstrations will  last only a few weeks (and possibly re-emerge around Trump’s January inauguration) because it is difficult to organize and sustain ongoing protests.

He also believes the uptick in racially charged incidents is temporary because American public opinion is overwhelmingly opposed to racism — especially if Trump and his supporters condemn racist acts.

“This is where leadership counts,” Guerra said...

More.

There Are Worse Things Than Losing an Election

I had the sweetest exchange with Bethany Mandel on Twitter last night, and she really made me think.

Leftists need to put things in perspective:

This is the worst thing that has happened in my life. But eventually we will triumph. https://t.co/BvKm1DKL1i pic.twitter.com/4fSMyH7PrY

— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) November 9, 2016

I took my mom off life support at 16 & dad hanged himself 3 yrs later. I'm sorry this election was so hard for you. https://t.co/yTjbeWzCep

— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) November 13, 2016

Yumoom Men's Oversized Canvas Travel Duffle Bag [BUMPED]

A top product, at Amazon, Yumoom Men's Oversized Canvas Travel Duffle Bag Tote Luggage Bag Overnight Bags."

A nice bag too!

BONUS: Justin Gest, The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality.

Sunday Trump Girls Rule 5

Well, it's a new dawn, and Rule 5 blogging's going to be more popular than ever!

Flashback to June, "Babes for Trump."

And at Heat Street, "‘Babes for Trump’ Want to Break the Internet." (And see this "Trump Girl" posting this week.)

Also, at 90 Miles From Tyranny,"Morning Mistress," and Drunken Stepfather, "STEPLINKS OF THE DAY."

BONUS: At Pirate's Cove, "Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup," and "If All You See……is horrendous carbon pollution created snow, you might just be a Warmist."

Sunday Cartoons

At Flopping Aces, "Tuesday Election Day Funnies."



Theo Spark, "Cartoon Roundup..."

Cartoon Credit: A.F. Branco, "Angry White Leftists."

Reince Priebus Picked as White House Chief of Staff

There'll be some moaning from hardcore tea partiers and "Never Trumpers," but this is an extremely smart pick.

At LAT, "Trump chooses Republican Party chairman Priebus as his chief of staff":

President-elect Donald Trump named Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus as his White House chief of staff on Sunday, suggesting an increased willingness by Trump to work within Washington's system to accomplish his agenda.

Priebus was viewed as a choice who could bring order and experience to Trump's inner circle, which consists largely of family members and advisors with little experience in Washington. He also serves as a bridge to Republican leaders on Capitol Hill, including House Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

The other leading candidate to run Trump's White House staff was campaign CEO Stephen K. Bannon, a more incendiary choice who helped bolster some of Trump's most divisive rhetoric about Muslims, immigrants and other minority groups.

Bannon will also play a major role in the Trump administration as chief strategist, the president-elect said...

More.

Trump rewarded loyalty, and I certainly noticed that Priebus went all out to support Trump after he won the nomination. I was kinda surprised sometimes the way things were going, considering how almost the entire GOP establishment had rebuked Trump time and again. Priebus held firm, and wasn't afraid of criticizing Trump on occasion.

Also at WSJ, "RNC Chair Priebus Is Named Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff."

Democrats Were Crushed in Appalachia

Salena Zito's reporting this year was perhaps the most important in all of journalism.

More here, at the Washington Examiner, "How the Democrats lost the white working class":

On Thursday morning the "Today" show had a segment on with a psychologist who was there to guide parents on how to explain Hillary Clinton's loss to their children.

"Well that is interesting, they sure didn't have a child psychologist on to explain to my children the loss of Mitt Romney, or John McCain. You just simply did not have that," said a suburban mother sitting in the waiting room of a doctor's office with the morning show streaming on the television.

The young mother, an IT professional who lives in Pittsburgh, the "Paris of Appalachia," said she was stunned once again how the media still don't get people outside of the big cities.

"Two days later and they still don't get it," said Brad Todd, a Washington based Republican consultant who also caught the show.

Nor did Republicans go to the streets and start burning stuff either, he said, "And, by the way, if Trump had lost and this had happened, think how different this coverage would be. It would, in fact, be meltdown crazy."

Brad Todd has gotten this cultural disconnect for a very long time, reaching back to the 2006 midterm elections that threw his party out of power. Todd, the founding partner of On Message, a GOP media strategy firm based in Washington, has never lost his connection to the five generations of Tennesseans that came before him.

And one of the regions he has really understood was Appalachia, which stretches from the industrial North, through the Rust Belt, down into the Deep South that distinctively follows the migration and settlement patterns of early Scots-Irish Jacksonian Democrats.

These voters are Democrats by birth, a tradition carried on from New Deal-Democrat paternity who fundamentally started breaking with their party when they began cutting them loose after flirting with their support during the 2006 midterm elections. It's been a decade since they offered voters moderate Democratic candidates.

Since then white, traditional-values, working-class, predominantly male voters have been severed from their party so they could build an urban- and cosmopolitan-centered coalition of minorities, elites and women...

Keep reading.

Mary Matalin's Facial Expressions Are Everything (VIDEO)

Heh.

Check out this post from Fuzzy Slippers, at Legal Insurrection.

Mary Matalin is just trippin' on Van Jones and Katrina vanden Heuval. Her facial expressions tell it all.

Here, "Mary Matalin v. Van Jones on Race in the 2016 Election."

John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, The Right Nation [BUMPED]

I read this book when it came out in 2005, although I admit I'd thought the arguments had gone out of favor.

But maybe not, after what we saw on election day.

Check it out, at Amazon, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America.

America is fundamentally a conservative nation at its core. The left has been trying to change that for generations, and came close during the Obama years. But now the "silent majority" has awakened, and leftist forces are in shock. Progressives and radicals are traumatized, and their coddling ideology has left them bereft with coping mechanisms.

Oh god what a beauty to behold. I'm loving this moment like you can't imagine. It's glorious.

Judge Jeanine's Opening Statement: This Was a Revolution (VIDEO)

So good!

She predicted an American Brexit and boy did she nail it!

President-Elect Trump Plans to Deport as Many as Two to Three Million Illegal Aliens Right Away

If you're a leftist, this is scary, but then, it's Obama who's to blame, not Trump.

Leftists had a chance to pass comprehensive immigration reform in 2009, including an earned legalization program, but they put it off, mostly because they wanted to keep illegal immigration as a wedge issue.

Big mistake.

At Blazing Cat Fur, "President Trump Vows to Immediately Deport 2-3 Million Criminal Illegal Aliens":

President-elect Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration stance was a central part of his campaign message in 2016 -- and he said in an interview airing Sunday that he plans to immediately deport approximately two to three million undocumented immigrants.

“What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably two million, it could be even three million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate,” Trump said in an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes.” “But we’re getting them out of our country, they’re here illegally.”

He continued by saying that after the border is “secure,” immigration officials will begin to make a “determination” about the remaining undocumented immigrants in the U.S.

“After the border is secure and after everything gets normalized, we’re going to make a determination on the people that they’re talking about who are terrific people, they’re terrific people but we are gonna make a determination at that,” he said. “But before we make that determination...it’s very important, we are going to secure our border.”

Asked whether he really plans to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border -- a proposal that served as a centerpiece of his campaign message -- Trump replied, “Yes.”

Since Trump’s election on Tuesday night, the realities of actually building that wall have begun to set in The Mexican government has publicly reminded him that Mexico will not pay for the wall. And asked about the wall, Trump transition co-chair Newt Gingrich said the wall was “a great campaign device.”

Trump also told “60 Minutes” that the border wall, which was one of the centerpieces of his campaign platform, could be part wall and “some fencing,” in accordance with what congressional Republicans have proposed.

“For certain areas I would, but certain areas, a wall is more appropriate,” he said. “I’m very good at this, it’s called construction.”

There's No 'Post-Election Spate' of Hate Crimes Following Donald Trump's Election

The Southern Poverty Law Center is spreading lies about an imaginary "surge" in post-election hate crimes, and mainstream media outlets are spreading the untruths.

See USA Today, for example, "Post-election spate of hate crimes worse than post-9/11, experts say" (via Memeorandum):

What may seem like a dramatic rise in the number of hate harassment and hate incidents happening across the country in the wake of Tuesday's general election is not in anyone's imagination, experts say.

There indeed has been a spike in the number of reports of such incidents, say representatives for two organizations that track such occurrences. A representative for one group, in fact, said the rise appears to be even worse that what was took place immediately after the terror attacks in 2001.

"Since the election, we've seen a big uptick in incidents of vandalism, threats, intimidation spurred by the rhetoric surrounding Mr. Trump's election," Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., told USA TODAY. "The white supremacists out there are celebrating his victory and many are feeling their oats," Cohen said.

More.

And then see Reason, "There Is No Violent Hate-Crime Wave n 'Trump's America': Please stop spreading unsubstantiated stories of Trump-induced terror":

Let's get this out of the way: there's no doubt that Donald Trump's policies may pose a direct threat to certain classes of American people. But in the wake of his Tuesday night election as president of the United States, there has been a wave of people worrying for the physical safety of Mexicans, Muslims, and anyone else who isn't white, male, and gender-conforming. The fear seems to legitimately be that there are would-be perpetrators of sexual assault and race-based violence that have been well-behaved so far but will now, emboldened by a President-elect Trump, suddenly go wild with the raping and the hate crimes.

Implausible? I think so. But the narrative has been bolstered by a few high-profile incidents of alleged aggression in Trump's America...

More.

One-Third of Clinton Voters Say Donald Trump is Illegitimate President-Elect

I have to confess by this time I thought the anger and despair would have died down, but it's not. I expect it's going to go on for a while now, and those dejected about the election are never going to accept Donald Trump's legitimacy. What comes next isn't clear, but it seems to me people should be channeling their emotions and efforts into conventional forms of political participation, like organizing for 2018 and 2020. It's not that far away.

As noted, I was depressed for a couple of months after 2008, but when the tea party started going in my area, I joined up. It gave me a chance to be around similar people with similar goals, and the tea party started winning. It was fun. Democrats need to get organized at the grassroots. They need to get active and start working for their issues. If it were me (and I were young), I'd travel to those states where Democrats lost in the Electoral College and start organizing for the next round. Can Democrats win those disaffected voters back? That's the challenge. And it's a calling for the left.

In any case, at the Washington Post, "One-third of Clinton supporters say Trump election is not legitimate, poll finds":

33% of Clinton supporters do not accept that Trump legitimately wonhttps://t.co/x1uaOtvpPQ

— Chris Cillizza (@TheFix) November 13, 2016

A strong majority of Americans accept Donald Trump as the winner of the presidential election last week, but a significant minority of Hillary Clinton supporters say his victory was illegitimate, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

The survey was conducted immediately after Election Day as anti-Trump protests sprang up across major cities, at the end of an acidic campaign in which Trump himself said he may not accept election results if Clinton prevailed.

The Post-ABC poll finds 74 percent of all Americans say they accept the election of Trump as legitimate while 18 percent do not. That result parallels a Post-ABC Tracking Poll just before the election, which found 79 percent of likely voters saying they were prepared to accept the outcome of the election regardless of who they support.

But while Trump supporters were more reluctant about accepting results before Tuesday — 22 percent said they were not prepared to do so — an even larger share of Clinton supporters now say they do not view Trump's election as legitimate.

A 58 percent majority of Clinton supporters say they accept Trump’s election, while 33 percent do not. Questions about Trump’s victory are passionate — 27 percent of Clinton supporters feel “strongly” he did not win legitimately.

There are sharp racial and gender differences in Clinton supporters’ acceptance of the results. Only 18 percent of whites who supported Clinton say Trump is not the legitimate winner, identical to the public overall, but fully 51 percent of black, Hispanic and other nonwhite Clinton supporters say Trump’s victory was illegitimate. Women who supported Clinton are twice as likely as men to question the legitimacy of Trump’s victory, 42 vs. 21 percent.

A Gallup poll released Friday asking a slightly different question found a smaller 23 percent of Clinton supporters saying they would not accept Trump as the legitimate president when he is inaugurated in January.

In the Post-ABC poll, nearly all of Trump’s supporters say he was elected legitimately, 99 percent, also marking a turnabout in confidence from one week ago when only 69 percent said they were prepared to accept the results of the election...

That's pretty revealing: A majority of "non-white" Clinton supporters reject Donald Trump. How's that "Hope and Change" working out for us? This is truly the legacy of the Obama years. We're divided along racial lines like no time since the civil rights era of the 1960s.

And it's going to take leftists to make things better. They're going to need to find a path to healing. I see Trump supporters saying time and again that their support for the Manhattan mogul is not racial. But leftists see everything through the lens of race. It's a cancerous legacy of the last 8 years. And it's a challenge for all Americans.

Still more. (Via Hot Air and Memeorandum.)

Leftists Lost the Culture War

We saw a hint of this in the 2015 off-year elections. Remember Molly Ball's piece, at the Atlantic, "Liberals Are Losing the Culture Wars."

Well, two elections in a row and the results are in. Leftists have been crushed, phenomenally crushed in the culture wars.

At USA Today:

People are crying: It's not because they lost a race, they lost the culture war. #MAGA https://t.co/nRWT7takGq

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) November 12, 2016

California and Donald Trump on Collision Course Over Illegal Immigration

California's Democrats and progressives are going to lose on this.

It's ironic because when states like Arizona cracked down with their own immigration enforcement laws, the Obama Democrats argued that immigration is solely a federal responsibility at the Supreme Court.

Now that the shoe's on the other foot, not so much.

At LAT, "California and Trump are on a collision course over immigrants here illegally":

California is quickly becoming a battleground for immigration policy as a cross-section of leaders across the state vowed to fight any plans by President-elect Donald Trump to deport thousands of people in the U.S. illegally.

Trump said during the presidential campaign that he’ll build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and deport people in the country illegally. He is expected to unwind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, an initiative by President Obama that protects immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children.

California has some of the nation’s most liberal policies when it comes to handling immigrants here illegally. The state has allowed them to get driver’s licenses, health coverage for children and in-state tuition. Institutions like churches also support immigrants.

But the Golden State could be on a collision course with Trump if he pushes hard-line immigration policies enthusiastically backed by many of his supporters.

Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez led an interfaith prayer service Thursday night in which he reassured immigrants in the country illegally that the church would continue supporting them.

“In the past couple days since the election … we have children in our schools who are scared,” Gomez told the congregation. “They think the government is going to come and deport their parents.”

At a hastily convened meeting Friday at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti warned that the city will question Trump’s decisions on immigration.

“If the first day, as president, we see something that is hostile to our people, hostile to our city, bad for our economy, bad for our security, we will speak up, speak out, act up and act out,” Garcetti said.

The mayor also said police would continue to enforce Special Order 40, which bars officers from asking people about their immigration status.

Kamala Harris, in her first appearance since winning her U.S. Senate race, also held an event Thursday at CHIRLA to announce her support for immigrants and criticize Trump’s plan for a U.S.-Mexico border wall.

Several days of street demonstrations in Los Angeles and other cities have followed Trump’s election, with protesters denouncing the Republican’s views on issues such as immigration. About 200 people were arrested Thursday night in downtown Los Angeles, according to LAPD Officer Tony Im.

Another anti-Trump protest is planned Saturday for MacArthur Park.

Of the 742,000 people across the country protected under DACA, about 200,000 are in Los Angeles County, according to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles.

Angelica Salas, CHIRLA’s executive director, said her office is being inundated with requests from immigrants about their status.

Marissa Montes, co-director of the Loyola Immigrant Justice Center, helps run a weekly meeting at the Dolores Mission in Boyle Heights. She said twice as many people — about 40 — showed up at this week’s forum Wednesday.

“People came out because of fear,” Montes said. “It was incredibly heartbreaking to tell people that I couldn’t tell them what was ahead.”

Good luck people.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection's coming for you, so just keep protesting and organizing and making yourself visible. It only makes it easier for the Trump administration to deport you.

More.

Previously, "Obama's Immigration Executive Orders Can Be Easily Overturned; Trump Administration Expected to Boost Deportations, Spreading Fear Throughout Illegal Alien Communities."

Fujifilm Instax Mini 8 Instant Camera

One of the top products, at Amazon, Fujifilm INSTAX Mini 8 Instant Camera (Blue).

BONUS: Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right.