As crazy as this is going to sound, I need to start hoping that all of the most extreme and offensive things he’s said and promised on his campaign turn out to be of the nature of his caught-on-tape suggestion that when a man is “a star” he can just “grab by the pussy” because “they let you do it”-that is, the nature of bullshit. We are moving from the realm of talk to the realm of action. This isn’t Donald’s locker room anymore, where offensive, idiotic things get suggested that probably don’t happen in real life. Because now he actually has power- tremendous power, to borrow a term from his default rhetoric of thoughtlessly overdrawn superlatives. To wish failure upon Trump in the White House is to wish ill on the world. There is a vindictive instinct in me that wants President Donald Trump to fail fantastically, so that he will finally be revealed to his supporters as the witless fraud I think he is, and then stinging from the embarrassing and detrimental backlash of their willful blindness to all of the red flags he proudly waved as he sauntered from podium to podium, they will feel badly and atone and vow to do better next time, and we will be able to say we told them so, and Elizabeth Warren will win by a landslide in 2020.īut I need to stop that kind of thinking. Like all of us here in America, and like many people around the world, our son will be affected by this fact. But unlike the birds, our son will be born into the society that has just elected “The Donald” as its leader. Happily, he will know nothing of this human specimen called President Donald Trump, just as the birds and the squirrels and the dogs in the park know nothing of “The Wall” or The Apprentice. If things go as hoped with the pregnancy, in the springtime we will bring a son into this world of light and air and dirt and buildings and people and infinite complexity.
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Over the course of the night, swing state by swing state swinging red, and then by surprise Trump wins in Wisconsin and Michigan, what had seemed an almost foregone conclusion when we began-Hillary Clinton winning the election-had become a conclusion that would take a miracle to achieve.
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When I went to bed at 2am on Tuesday, November 8th, bleary and bruised from the sustained shock, dismay, and disbelief, I pretty much knew that we would be waking up to this incredible fact, but I was still holding onto a few threads of hope for a miracle. I am still waking up to this surreal fact, again and again, like a recovering amputee drifting in and out of consciousness, each awakening a re-realization of the missing limb. It’s old news by now, but no less jarring when it comes lunging back at me after a short period of not thinking about it: Donald Trump will be the next President of the United States.