Voter dissatisfaction

Once the crying and the gloating ends, maybe consider this. Donald Trump pulled off a jaw-dropping political feat and defeated Hillary Clinton and her powerful political machine. For some reason the pollsters and media were surprised.

Since President Barack Obama was elected, my party has lost 63 House seats, 10 Senate seats, 14 governorships and now the White House and Supreme Court.

U.S. voters signaled strongly in the last two midterms their dissatisfaction. The Democrats’ answer was to give these voters more of the same from a party and president many did not like or trust. There’s a lesson there for both sides.

Mr. Trump apparently flipped three blue Midwest states and 44 electoral votes. Mr. Trump received over 62 million votes, not all from unwashed, uneducated, despicable homophobes, Islamaphobes, racists, sexists or misogynists. Like it or not, there’s a new POTUS-elect in town, albeit a split decision.

Hope Mr. Trump stops late-night tweeting and starts acting more presidential.

Hope the Democrats treat Mr. Trump better than the GOP treated President Obama during the last eight years.

Hope Washington, D.C., puts the voters first and stops infighting. It shouldn’t take eight months to fund the Zika vaccine, or bringing the government to the brink before funding a budget, or allowing infrastructure to crumble because one side disagrees with the other side across the aisle.

And hope in future elections all voters are willing to send anyone home who won’t set aside differences and put our wonderful country first, ahead of party and re-election.

JOE SEAMAN

Lakeview