Trump has no legitimate mandate from the American people. None.

He has no mandate. It’s a simple point, but it’s one we need to remember as we organize our opposition. It’s also one congressional Democrats need to keep at the front of their minds. On Election Day, the American people did not choose the right-wing agenda of Donald Trump.

1. They did not choose to end our government’s efforts to fight climate change.
2. They did not choose to repeal Obamacare—which itself means a massive shift of tax money from people near or below the median to those at the top.
3. They did not choose to gut financial protections for consumers.
4. They did not choose to have another right-wing justice put on the Supreme Court.
5. They did not choose to have new rules on overtime for millions of working Americans reversed.
6. They did not choose to have an attorney general who will work to suppress the vote.
7. They did not choose huge tax giveaways to the wealthy and corporations.
8. They certainly did not choose to see Medicare privatized so that it will wither on the vine, or Medicaid slashed.

And that list is just a start.

Donald Trump won a majority of votes in the Electoral College by drawing an inside straight in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, and thanks to the unprecedented interventions of Vladimir Putin and James Comey. But he lost the popular vote by a figure approaching 3 million. He can claim absolutely no legitimate popular mandate, yet he intends to implement the most right-wing agenda this country has seen in going on a century. There is no question he and his Republican allies in Congress are going to try. The only open question is what are we going to do about it.

Ian Reifowitz is the author of Obama’s America: A Transformative Vision of Our National Identity (Potomac Books).

PS-Here’s video of me on a conservative show making some of these points. I should add that the title and the chyron are not my creation.