I’ve been trying to support my friends, most of whom are very very gay. I worry about my patients (I work on an inpatient psychiatric unit with children and adolescents) and what kind of a future they will have. What about my Muslim friends and patients? Immigrants who I work with? I worry about my dad who is on Social Security Disability after working his whole life and went blind in his early 60s due to an eye condition and is getting already penalized for drawing two years early from his work pension — will SSD be taken away from him, too, even though he is legitimately disabled and only has partial sight in one eye?

Already, two of my friends have been harassed for being very visibly, unabashedly out in the open lesbians where I live in Vermont and in a liberal small city in Massachusetts, respectively. I don’t even get it, I’m so far removed from why people hate gay people. Why the fuck are you so invested in their lives? Why does it bother you so much? Are you dealing with your own internalized homophobia? If so, please deal with it.

Trump is disgusting and I truly fear for the future.

But I don’t want to live in fear.

A few days out, I see opportunity in his lack of any sort of actionable policies and the universal disgust on the part of people opposed to him. But we must act, someway, somehow. I’m still sorting it out myself and starting to feel less disassociated and overwhelmed, and more focused, determined, and thoroughly enraged and ready to fight back. I’m hoping fellow progressive leaning folks like myself will be galvanized by this and continue to resist all of this bullshit.

There will be not one but several big bombshells about Trump that will cause great consternation and constipation among his fellow republicans within the first six months of office.
He will get bored and/or overwhelmed with the rules and regulations of the office.
His counterparts around the globe will be cool, ruthless and uninterested in his “celebrity”. The Big Ugly American is not welcome.
His henchmen (Gingrich, Christie, Giuliani et al) will tear each other’s eyes out trying to be head pack dog.
Melania will go stir crazy and wish for Slovenia.

Here’s a silver lining: all the fingerpointing, blaming, insults, hatred etc hurled at Obama over the years will now be aimed at Trump, they have no one else to beat up. Have at it boys!!

Thomas – Oh god, four years. I don’t think I’m up to it.

Ize – Thank you for being a fan! I agree about the primaries and keep bitching about that. The Clintons aren’t saints but The Donald appears to be mentally and emotionally arrested to a degree that I wouldn’t bring him to a family dinner or leave him alone with a 16 year old girl. Our government is fucked up in fundamental ways, yes, but a Clown/Conman is not a viable choice for leader of the free world. I appreciate your activism despite our differences!