It all happened so quickly.

Donald Trump was elected President of the United States on Tuesday. By Saturday, more than 200 hate crimes had been reported to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a spike more severe than the one after 9/11.

It all happened so quickly.

On Sunday, Trump announced that Breitbart publisher and white nationalist Steve Bannon will be his chief strategist. Breitbart, under his tenure, had a special section for stories specifically about “Black Crime.” Here are some headlines that Bannon published:

“Bill Kristol: Republican Spoiler, Renegade Jew”

“Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive And Crazy”

“Data: Young Muslims In The West Are A Ticking Time Bomb, Increasingly Sympathising With Radicals, Terror”

It all happened so quickly.

The Ku Klux Klan will hold a victory parade on Dec. 3 in North Carolina.

It all happened so quickly.

Ken Blackwell, who heads the Family Research Council, designated by the SPLC as an anti-LGBT hate group, will help head Trump’s transition team on domestic issues.

Blackwell believes that being gay is both a choice and a transgression against God.

It all happened so quickly.

Trump, who is about to become the most powerful man in the world, tweeted angrily about the New York Times on Sunday. He said the paper was losing subscribers, that it was dishonest with its reporting on Trump’s stance on nuclear proliferation. (The NYT was, in fact, correct in reporting that he said more countries should acquire nuclear weapons.)

He has in the past threatened legal action against media outlets critical of him.

It all happened so quickly.

I’m prone to walking the streets of Oakland late at night, usually alone. Saturday night, headed to a friend’s house, I felt afraid for the first time. I did not feel safe walking alone in a country which has been emboldened to hate Others, and as a white woman, I probably feel significantly safer than any woman of color or Muslim woman.

Never before have I thought I might have to use the mace my mom sent me in a care package that also came with homemade cookies. But this weekend I was afraid.

It all happened so quickly.

After Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid denounced Trump in a statement in which he called Trump a “sexual predator,” Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s campaign manager, said “he should be very careful about characterizing someone in a legal sense,” implying that President-Elect Trump will use legal actions to punish people, as well as media outlets who criticize him.

It is happening now.

Donald Trump is dangerous for democracy, dangerous for women, dangerous for immigrants, dangerous for the LGBTQ community, dangerous for Jewish people, and dangerous for anyone who isn’t white.

Now is not the time to “unify” under a president with fascist goals. Now is the time to organize and figure out how to stop him from implementing his racist, sexist policies.

Any politician or citizen who helps to normalize the idea of a Trump presidency is complicit in helping it destroy lives.

It is happening now.

The idea that “divisiveness” is currently our country’s biggest problem is laughable. The division is this: People who are okay with an impending fascist and white supremacist regime, and people who are not.

I am not willing to compromise with white nationalists, and the idea that I should is insulting to people of color and queer people who face physical attacks from citizens and legislative ones from our new leader.

I feel no obligation to be polite to white supremacists or pretend as though a vote for a racist misogynist is not a racist and misogynist act.

At the very least, that vote signals the prioritization of personal interests over the well-being of marginalized people who will suffer under Trump. Pretending otherwise helps no one and only serves to relieve people of their culpability for what is about to transpire.

It is happening now.

Get organized. Join activist organizations. Don’t sit by while injustices are committed on an individual and national scale. The country has just gotten a lot scarier for a lot of people. Letting them wallow in their fear without acting is an endorsement of that same fear.

Complacency is no longer an option.

It is happening now.