There's one problem with Donald Trump winning reelection: Now we, the nearly 73 million Americans who voted for the Republican presidential nominee, must brace ourselves for four years of fearmongering, insults and threats.

For years, I've been told that if Trump wins, he'll destroy democracy and send journalists and political dissidents to the gulag. Celebrities and other people of means have even threatened (promised?) to move to other countries.

If true, America is an awful place to live and the independent journalism that pays my bills may vanish at any moment. Please clutch your pearls as you read this. I'd appreciate it.

Some of these concerns are based on the president-elect's own inflammatory rhetoric. Trump has said that the news media are "the enemy of the people" and that NBC News "should be investigated" for treason. His chief legal defender, Mike Davis, has said that he'd put journalists in gulags, then said he was just trolling.

Those were for sure stupid statements from Trump and his team. But we should know by now that he often doesn't mean what he says. He's full of baloney a lot of the time.

Although Trump's rhetoric is inflammatory, he rarely makes good on his threats. But he was elected to fix the things he promised to fix, and it won't take long for Americans to wonder if he was just full of hot air when he said he'd extend his tax cuts and secure the border.

I must point out, however: Why is it that when Trump campaigned on lower taxes, a secure border, orderly immigration, a peaceful........

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