"Six days after Donald Trump won the presidency, many on the left are still angry and depressed. Thousands are protesting in the streets, believing they will soon be victims of oppression. Most of the demonstrators are peaceful, but some are not. Apart from wanting open immigration, one of the main beefs on the left is that the philosophy of inclusion is endangered by Trump. Apparently the anti-Trump people believe that eight years of the Obama administration have brought about an American unification, that we are basically harmonious in this country and now all that harmony has dissolved because Trump was elected. The fact is more than 60 million Americans do not feel that President Obama included them in his grand left-wing vision, thus they voted against continuing his legacy by giving power to Mr. Trump. Let's get more specific. It is not inclusive to spit in the eye of religious Americans by forcing nuns to fund birth control and promoting abortion without limits. Same thing with forcing Americans to pay more for health insurance so the poor can have free or subsidized health care. That's good for the have-nots, but millions of working Americans are not included in the benefits of ObamaCare. They are hurt by higher premiums and lack of medical choices. It is not inclusive to ignore the hard drug epidemic in America that is shattering families and killing thousands while diverting the attention of the Justice Department into controversies like who can use which bathroom. Then there's illegal immigration. It is not inclusive to fail to monitor the workplace so that foreign nationals who have no right to be here can waltz on in and secure jobs. On the safety front, it is not inclusive to fail to protect the poor in Chicago from the murderous gang violence that has been going on for years while the city fathers did absolutely nothing to contain it. Many urban folks are not included in effective public safety policies. Likewise, failing to protect all Americans from illegal alien felons who defy deportation is not inclusive. Children in bad schools are not included in quality education, are they? The left fights desperately against charter schools and vouchers for the poor, which would give low-income families school choice. Memo to the progressive community: Opposing school competition is not inclusive at all! Hating your neighbor because he or she holds different life views is not inclusive. Despising white or black or Asian or Hispanic folks is not inclusive. Disparaging gays is not inclusive. But forcing business people to support gay nuptials when their religious beliefs are challenged is not inclusive either. The national media in this country generally excludes traditional Americans from fair play. They mock and demean conservative folks, sometimes even branding them racist, sexist and haters. This awful trend is championed on the Internet, which pretty much excludes anyone who is not liberal from inclusion in the 'good person' club. So you are living in a fantasy world if you think the liberal administration of the past eight years has encouraged inclusion. It has not. And the millions of Americans who have been excluded have now put an end to the inclusion delusion. A good thing."

Democratic strategists Richard Goodstein and Garland Nixon evaluated the Talking Points Memo and the current protests. "You're wrong in interpreting this election as a reflection on the Obama administration," Nixon began. "I think this was really about Hillary Clinton - the people in the rust belt who put Donald Trump over the top voted for Barack Obama. I blame the mainstream media because they have told people they have to be afraid of Donald Trump, and now there is a mass of terrified people." Goodstein argued that the marchers have legitimate reasons to protest. "People are protesting because they are feeling scared, they have looked back at what Donald Trump said. If these kids were watching the news over the past year, they heard the Bushes and Romney and Colin Powell call Trump a bigot and con artist. So you can't really lay this on the media when it was leading Republicans who were saying these things."

There have been scattered reports of hateful and racist incidents committed by right-wing zealots. The Factor asked criminal justice professor Brian Levin to analyze the reports. "We have seen attacks on Trump supporters," Levin said, "but there have been many unofficial and anecdotal incidents on the other side. We have reports of swastikas and black students being put into white supremacist Internet groups. There are hateful websites that encourage their supporters to harass minorities." But The Factor countered, "We scoured arrest reports looking for black or Hispanic people being hectored by white people, but they don't exist."

Donald Trump has vowed to cut off federal funding to cities that provide safe harbor to illegal immigrants. But some big-city mayors say they will remain sanctuary cities, whatever the feds may say. The Factor discussed that with Mary Anne Marsh and Katie Pavlich. "Donald Trump will probably ask Congress to strip some funding to sanctuary cities," Pavlich said, "and I think he will direct Homeland Security to go in and raid these cities to take out some of the worst elements." But Marsh urged President-elect Trump to come up with a more permanent solution. "We have sanctuary cities because the immigration system is broken. We're not going to deport our way out of this problem and we're not going to 'build a fence' out of this problem. Donald Trump should fix this." The Factor concluded, "I believe Donald Trump will use an executive order to freeze funding to sanctuary cities."

Just before embarking on a trip to Europe and South America, President Obama held a press conference Monday. Charles Krauthammer watched and reacted. "Obama is saying he did such a good job and the country is in great shape," Dr. K observed, "but then why did his party get crushed? He's now pretending that everything is okay, but it's not. The Obama legacy is such a disaster that it was very easy for people to reject Hillary Clinton. The white working class felt excluded by the Democrats and that the country was all about speech control and affirmative action. There has also been a very aggressive secularism that has marginalized religious people."

Jesse Watters hit the streets of Philadelphia and found some people who admitted to sitting out the election. Here's what a few of them said: "Honestly, I just wasn't registered" ... "I didn't want the blood on my hands" ... "I felt like it wasn't really going to matter."

Darren Erickson, British Columbia, Canada: "Bill, your segment on the Electoral College was good. We have the popular vote here, and I am tired of being marginalized because many elections are decided in the east."

Tony Ford, Las Vegas, NV: "The progressives are destroying their brand by engaging in anti-democracy acts."

Laurie Sweet, McKinney, TX: "People who argue in a passive-aggressive manner stimulated by questionable websites, are the new face of evil."

Richard Stead, Mexico City, Mexico: "The Army should think about drafting these violent protesters."

NFL TV ratings are way down, partly a result of some players refusing to stand for the National Anthem, so the league is trying to win back traditional Americans with displays of flags and military. Patriotism is never a bad thing.