Before anyone asks, no I didn’t stay up all night to see the US electoral disaster unfold. I was fairly sure what would happen and was not pleased to be proven right. I will never understand why anyone could vote for an individual so obviously unsuitable for high office as Donald Trump. I could say that about a number of other prominent national leaders too, but Trump is far worse. At least in 2016 there was an argument that he was an unknown quantity. Now everyone knows that he is a convicted felon – at least until he issues himself a pardon – and serial sexual predator whose outspoken bigotry appeals to the basest instincts of the electorate. I don’t believe that Trump fans can’t see what a monster their idol is: they do see, but don’t care. It was the same in the UK with Boris Johnson.
However depressing it is to wake up and hear yet more evidence of the relentless march of fascism, there is no point in self-pity. If you yield to despair, the bastards have won. In order to resist it is first necessary to endure. Brace yourselves. Things are going to get very nasty.
I’m just glad that I’m no longer young.
