Trauma, Trump and 2020

The last five years have slowly eroded the mental health of millions of Americans. The trauma will not leave us when Trump does.

Since 2016, Trump has had a target planted firmly on the backs of the most marginalized communities in America- Undocumented Immigrants, Transgender people, Black Americans, Muslim Americans… we have been the victims of psychological warfare that few of us have the faculties to process and remain healthy.

From banning Trans people from the military, stripping us of our healthcare equality and challenging whether or not we are covered beneath the 1964 civil rights act, to Black America watching him retweet a video of a man yelling “White Power” to a group of Black Lives Matter protesters while claiming that symbolism representing the Black Lives Matter movement “denigrates wealthy neighborhoods” we have sat helplessly and endured an endless barrage of emboldened insults, offensive displays of white, straight cisgender superiority and efforts to weaponize legislation against us.

Most of us have had to witness a bizarre collapse of common sense and simple human decency as everything we know to be true and good has been challenged and shifted. We are asked to thumb our nose at science, data, facts, experts and pummel anyone who deviates from Trumpist beliefs as purveyors of Fake News. We’ve sat in shock over and over again as our…