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Don't laugh or scream but Jason Kenney is the Hillary Clinton of Alberta politics | Nov 14 2016 | David J. Climenhaga | Jason Kenney is neither very well liked nor much trusted, even by his own supporters, but the Alberta conservative political establishment is prepared to roll the dice to see him win.
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What should progressives do first now that America has elected Donald Trump?

Donald Trump is president-elect of the United States. In 2017 he will take the reins of the world's biggest economy and the most powerful military in human history. People around the world who were hoping to see the first ever female president have had their hopes crushed by a confessed abuser of women. Muslims, Latinx, Black folk, queer and trans people are rightly terrified of what this means for their personal safety.

The liberal establishment has a lot to answer for and the left in general has a lot of soul searching ahead of it. Joe Hill famously said, "Don't mourn, organize" -- but even those powerful words seem to ring a bit thin this time around. Even so, the work to build a better world started yesterday -- just as it would have under a Clinton presidency.

What is the first thing an organized left should undertake with Donald J. Trump on his way to the White House? (Hint: Start with Dru Oja Jay's to-do list for activists.)

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