If you're like me, the past few days have felt like a never-ending nightmare. The new president is a fascist who is a major threat to every single marginalized group in this country. If there's one thing we can be certain of, it's that the next four years are not going to be easy.

The primary liberal response to this existential threat has been that "love trumps hate." In their minds, if there is enough love, it will beat Trump and his administration. It's a nice sentiment for sure, but, as an ideology, it falls apart pretty quickly.

The problem is that fascists don't care about how much you love others. They only care about their agendas. Love won't stop Donald Trump from instituting a Muslim ban or from deporting undocumented folks.

This isn't to say that love isn't important. Indeed, any type of movement building requires people who care about themselves and each other. But love by itself is meaningless without any sort of concrete resistance.

And said resistance often includes negative emotions that have nothing to do with love. The problem with the "love trumps hate" crowd is that they end up shaming those who might not want to respond to a fascist regime with love. In fact, I would argue that Trump and his administration most certainly do not deserve love. Personally, I despise Trump and everyone who associates with him. I have absolutely no qualms about this.

Ultimately, "love trumps hate" exists in a convenient liberal fiction in which the good guys automatically win. But unfortunately, the moral arc of the universe does not bend towards justice. In order to get justice, we actually need to fight back. This has been true for all of this country's history.

When abolitionists fought against slavery, they did not politely petition slave-owners to release their slaves. They organized a resistance to help slaves escape to freedom.

When the civil rights movement pushed for legal equity, they did not just advocate love, they used direct action to paralyze cities until people in power had no choice but to listen to them.

When the police busted the Stonewall Inn in 1969, the patrons did not express their love for the cops arresting them. They threw cinderblocks at them.

It's time for us to follow in their footsteps. Instead of spouting feel-good drivel, we need to actually fight back.