To my neighbors, friends, and family members who voted for Trump:
I had prepared to apologize to you this morning.
I was going to say I’m sorry that you feel betrayed by the Republican leadership of the last…
I think I have the right to be. For the first time after a Presidential Election, in one of the most powerful countries in the world, I have seen the numbers for suicide hotlines floated around. I have watched as my black, latino, and female friends deeply worry that generations of progress in building…
All my life I’ve had a hard time understanding how tribalism is so present in our society.
It is defined as the behavior and attitudes that stem from strong loyalty to one’s own tribe or social group. But time after time I’ve always failed to…
On election night, 2016, I went to bed around 10:30 when it became clear that, contrary to my hopes and expectations, a Clinton victory was the upset scenario. As my wife and I lay in bed talking things over I realized I felt the way I had felt during…
The Monster Under the Bed
To My Fellow Commanders-in-Chief:
Pinch me.
So many of us must have thought that in some iteration when we woke up this morning. This can’t be happening. Wake me up so that this nightmare is over. But it is not. It is really happening. And it’s just…
On November 9, we woke up in Donald Trump’s America, an America that many well-meaning people have sadly blinded themselves to for far too long.
To recap, when Donald Trump won last night, it was in spite of overwhelming support for Hillary…
“The end of the republic has never looked better,” — joked Barack Obama at the The White House correspondents dinner at the end of April.
Because I’m a man, I hadn’t cried during a political event of any kind — until Hillary Clinton’s concession…
The idea called America is a centuries-long argument about whether unlike people can live together peacefully and with respect. Every experiment has a test. A mirror was…
It is not Gary Johnson’s fault. It is not Jill Stein’s fault. It is not the non-voters fault. It is the fault of the solidarity of preserving whatever inherent benefits that Whiteness possesses that has given us a forthcoming President Donald J. Trump.
Somehow, in the blink of an eye, my whole world just turned upside down. America the Great. The melting pot. Land of the…
Yesterday morning I woke up and said out loud “I accept whatever the outcome of this election is.”
I decided that whatever the outcome, I had spent all the emotional and functional energy I wanted to on the election. I was public about my point of view. I advocated…
November 9th, 2016
Son,
You brought your mom and I the most joy we’ve ever experienced when you looked at us for the first time. We had no idea how much love we had in us to give until you graced our lives with your tenacious smile…
No matter what the outcome of this night is, my fellow Americans have shown their colors, and they are overwhelmingly the colors of hatred, and I don’t know how to live with this.
The thing you need to realize is that this was never a mere disagreement about…
Donald Trump predicted this election would be “Brexit plus plus plus.” He was right.
Just 10 days ago, prediction markets showed Trump as a 10-to-1 underdog. His projected odds among election forecasters in the media were even lower, some…
In an earlier article, I described how getting scammed really affected my view of humanity, and how I was struggling with trying to understand how people could act from such a place of selfishness and disregard for their fellow man.
Well, folks, the evil genius has won. Donald J. Trump bet that playing to Joe Blow’s White tribal instincts would give him a winning edge. The only real question remaining is does this equate to Germany 1933.
After the 2015 general election I was surrounded by fellow peeved people. Understandably peeved people, also…
It is said that Napoleon Bonaparte’s presence on the battlefield alone could decide the outcome of the fighting. So…
Donald Trump had one more surprise up his sleeve.
The Republican nominee was elected president Tuesday…
I was going to write a long-winded thing about my feelings about the election, but then Anna Now wrote this, which basically sums it up for me.
On Facebook this morning, I linked to David Remnick’s New Yorker article called An American Tragedy, which I urge you all to read.
