The good news is that the Senator Mitch McConnell standstill will end.  Legislation will move.  As promised by their leader, the Republicans attempted to shut down government for all eight years of the Obama administration.  They succeeded in doing so for all but the first two years.

Even if I do not like what passes, I will enjoy the legislature doing something.  I believe that most citizens conflate the legislature with the administration.  President Obama took most all of the blame for government problems when, in fact, most were caused by the Republicans who controlled both the House and the Senate and attempted to thwart any policy put forth by the White House.  Now that the Republicans own the government lock, stock, and barrel, the voters will have to blame  problems on the GOP.  They will have to stop criticizing and legislate.

I also think that the underlying smoldering racism that the Republicans created when they took the South in 1968 after the Democrats were blamed for the advances in Civil Rights under Lyndon Johnson came to a head during the Obama years.  Now the pimple is popped.  Republican racism will be be out in the open.  Hiding a problem is not healthy.  Democrats are seen as soft on welfare.  The Republicans will be forced to show what has never been addressed: lingering racism.  The passage of Civil Rights reforms was a giant step but white criticism of African-Americans and Hispanics will now show itself more clearly in how the Republicans govern.

Passing laws and uncovering racial tension could be good in the long run.  What worries me is that Trump has never worked in the public sector for others.  His business is private.  I do not think he will be able to work well in the public sphere.  He has the equivalent of a board to answer to now.

His policies in regard to privatizing education, eliminating progress on the environment, and expanding nuclear arms could put the United States into the kind of jeopardy it faced going back to WW II.  Our imperfect democratic system has spoken and I am so worried that I wake up in the wee hours of the morning with dark thoughts.  I predict that within six months a considerable backlash to Trump will develop and the country will move back toward a more moderate center.