What's kept hope alive for me these four dark years has been unmistakable cultural peristalsis. Maybe I'm just in a silo, but it looks to me like American society marshaled itself to throw the bum up. Protests and marches, unified media opposition--maybe it's nothing to be proud of, but in our world, the universal contempt of late night comedians embodies real power. And it's not new, they're the inheritors of Mark Twain and Will Rogers and Lenny Bruce and dozens more.
Trump did his authoritarian best to tamp down turnout in the election. Instead, he's forecast to get the biggest turnout in over a century.
The extra 40 million or so voters are not his supporters. His base is dying off, not growing. They're people answering "yes" to your positive questions.
Go ahead, call me Pollyanna. Time for me to go pour another gin.
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