This has been an exhausting week.

I've been writing about politics, and, more specifically, President-elect Donald Trump since the beginning of my time at Odyssey. There has always been plenty to say, and there is more to say now than ever.

But I don't know that I can say it the right way.

The right way is the way President Obama said it when he addressed Trump's win on Wednesday afternoon, telling a group of assembled reporters that he was rooting for Trump's success. He was calm, his tone was even, and his message was generous.

I have been vocally #NeverTrump since long before he secured the nomination. I have criticized him, deservedly so, every step of the way. I felt sick Tuesday night as he led Secretary Clinton early on and continued to outpace her for most of the rest of the night.

But, if there's one person I know who wanted Donald Trump to be president less than I did, it's Barack Obama.

The man who takes up the mantle after our first Black president, is one who vocally questioned the President's citizenship for four years, who has been endorsed by the KKK, and who has pinned every problem facing America off on different minority groups.

President Obama's legacy was at stake in this election.

And, yet, our President, hours after a loss that broke the hearts of people who had much less to lose, told the American people to support the President-elect, and to do so out of respect for the future of America, the future of the presidency, and the future of democracy.

Evangelical Christians buoyed Trump to his upset over Secretary Clinton, and there's a saying Evangelical Christians love. I've heard it from pulpits, lecterns, and around the campfire.

"Love the sinner. Hate the sin."

In this election, with respect to Donald Trump, that phrase morphed from meaning what it says into meaning, "Love the sinner. Ignore the sin, because 'But Hillary!'"

Evangelical witness in this country has been compromised by the full embrace of a racist, sexist, bigot in pursuit of political capital, and that phrase has been corrupted with it. But, the message it conveys still stands.

I'm adapting it for the future our country now faces: "Support the President. Oppose the man."

I will support Donald Trump because he is the President of the United States, fair and square. He cried foul about a rigged system for weeks when it looked like he would be on the receiving end of a landslide loss, but the same system he called into question made him President. Democracy works and the man who suggested we just call the election off and give the it to him has benefited from its soundness. I will support Donald Trump because national unity and the future of democracy matters. The office matters, he doesn't. I will support Donald Trump inasmuch as he is the President of the United States.

But, I will oppose Donald Trump if he tries to do the things he said he would do. If he tries to destroy the fabric of this country by deporting 12 million undocumented immigrants, I will oppose him. If he tries to ban an entire religion (read: roughly one-quarter of the world's population) from entering the United States, I will oppose him. If he treats world leaders the way he treated his political opponents, I will oppose him. The office matters, he doesn't. I will oppose Donald Trump inasmuch as he acts like Donald Trump.

I am praying that he is nothing like the man we've seen for a year and a half on the campaign trail; not just for my sake, because as a straight, white, Christian man I'm about as safe as it gets. But for the sake of the marginalized groups he has scapegoated, I pray that, as he said in his acceptance speech, he is a President for all Americans.

And if he isn't, the Constitution gives the people the right to impeach their elected officials for a reason. Sometimes the best way to support the President is to save the office from the man.

I hope we don't have to. I hope he's the best President we've ever seen. I hope we win so much we get sick of winning.