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Chris Hayes: Why I still have hope we can fight against Trump's worst impulses

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Ruben Navarrette : Donald Trump won a majority of votes in the Electoral College and for the first time in his three presidential runs, he appears poised to win the national popular vote.

He says it's clear it was a rejection of the status quo in a period in which many voters feel alienated from their leaders and squeezed by high prices.

Trump and Republicans have a vested interest in interpreting this result as a mandate for their worst governing impulses, he says.

The most important thing for those of us who are committed to stopping them is to remember that their success is not foreordained.

Julian Zelizer : The thing that ended child separation was just a full rejection by the democratic polity.

Zelizer says it's important not to concede in advance that these things don’t matter. They do. Public opinion still matters. Politics depends on the work of organizing, mobilizing and persuading our fellow Americans .