Hearing about it for the first time, I thought, “haha – won’t he give them a run for the money… there’s no way he’ll succeed, but he’ll sure mess up their party”, then it became “he can’t possibly gain enough delegates…”

I tried my best to avoid the circus, but it was unavoidable. I couldn’t believe that monologues and tweets weren’t simply Hollywood or Reality-TV crap, that anyone with a right mind could take it seriously.

Build a wall? Ban all Muslims? Who thinks this is a solution to a problem? Who subscribes to these notions?!
Answer: 60.3 million people.

People I talk to describe a surreal feeling as they watched the results come in Tuesday night, clinging to any hope that things would turn at the last minute. I didn’t rest well. I couldn’t turn on the news Tuesday morning.

And just two days later, I started to see it. “Trump to deport 2-3 million undocumented immigrants”, considerations of a climate-change denier for environmental ministries, a creationist for education, an ultra-right-wing sensationalist journalist editor for Chief of staff. This is a tragic-comedy I’m reading, right?

Then it got worse.

“This is white-America now”

I feel sick.

Can you change the channel please? I don’t seem to be able to.