Cold Comfort

From the New York Times, July, 1919

Apart from the deaths of a several close friends and relatives, the greatest sense of loss I have felt in the past decade was of the absolute certainty that after two terms of a smart, competent, brilliant black President who left behind a thriving economy, any regressive blowback, however distressing, would be limited. I did not believe that 46% of the American electorate could vote for a manifestly incompetent, incoherent, screamingly unqualified buffoon and eke…