the week

 Election day 2016 I settled in with beer and chips and a jaunty attitude to watch the returns come in and went away muttering "The horror, the horror."  2020 it was just beer and I was full of trepidation and came away wiping sweat from my brow and muttering, "Well I'll be doggone."  2024 I reeled from that terrible debate, but when Kamala stepped in my heart soared like a hawk as did her polls soon afterwards.  But as the days wore on that lead steadily faded away.  Just before election though Kamala picked up and Trump was ranting increasingly wild and I sat down in front of the tube assessing my mood as cautiously optimistic.  The blue wall held until about ten when it was swamped over.  The horror, the horror.

Tonight it will be a week.  I have recovered to a state where I can get back to my routine, but I don't always tune into CNN and I gloss over the newspapers afraid of burning my fingers.  They are full of dems pointing their fingers at each other.  What the fuck difference does it make?  And they are full of those rubber tongued reps, the Trump Whisperers, explaining what Trump really meant when he issued his latest screed.

I heard one of the pundits say there was a republican theory going around during the last days that there are lots of voters who had never voted in their lives who were marginal people who would be susceptible to crazy talk.  Note how Trump got crazier than average at the end.  Anyway a lot of them showed up at the polls and a large majority of them voted for Trump.  

I haven't heard that theory again though.  The one I most commonly hear was that it the economy and immigration, but I dunno, if it's hot and sweaty on the beach do you head for the shark infested water?

I agree with Beagles that if Trump got in it would break the country to the extent that there might not be any more elections, and he shows no signs of pausing for sweet reason.

My only hope is that he hires a crazy crew that can't get much done and that his appointees are so busy fighting each other and again can't get much done.  In his last term there were thankfully some decent men in the deep state that stood up to him, this time he will be getting rid of all of them he can.

I guess that is as cautiously optimistic that I can be these days.