Susan Shelley: Donald Trump has a mandate from the American people

Better than a honeymoon

Roads will be closed. But there are alternate routes.

This country is in a sad state of affairs, forcing me to pick a candidate the way I did.

This election was a mandate driven by voters who believe in common sense over progressive ideas and radical beliefs.

This election victory proves that the modern tax revolt movement launched by Howard Jarvis in 1978 is not dead and that an effective political campaign can defeat the tax-and-spend interests.

I’ll enjoy my tax cuts and smile at his efforts to promote energy production, but I’ll be sad to recognize, as Le Monde puts it, “The end of an American world.”

A better alternative for California is to scale back this project, so that something useful can be completed with existing resources.

Stunts only detract from the real work to be done, and on which he ultimately will be judged by national voters.

I say that our betters should get out of their redoubts on the coasts and urban areas and college towns.

For the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and other dogged supporters of extreme rent controls, the third time most definitely was not the charm in Tuesday’s election.