Ha. What to say? Shit Happens.
I had no clue. Living in my own little progressive blue bubble. The USA is a big, complicated, contradictory country. Yikes. How does it feel? Like a punch in the gut, a sharp stick in the eye.
It's just another episode of Everything You (I) Know Is Wrong. There were a few pessimists in my midst, turns out they were oh, so right. My sunny optimism was a blinding ball of light. Sometimes things are not as they seem. Maybe I just wasn't looking closely or clearly enough? Dazzled by the joy and good feeling? I was in my happy little bubble, pretty sure that we would turn away, and turn the page, on that wanna-be tyrant.
Yes. So very wrong-headed of me. I chalk it up to weird shit & bad juju. Sometimes it is that kind of Universe. Supremely strange, but true, &, of course, greatly disheartening & disappointing.
I think of Curtis Mayfield this morning: "Keep on keeping on:"