"Don't panic" is as good advice now as it's ever been, but so many unlikely things have happened this year that I'm not going to discount anything on the grounds that it seems unlikely.
I've seen a lot of my friends talking about nuclear apocalypse. to me that seems ludicrous. At the same time, I'm not in a position to argue that it's not going to happen. A man who has amply demonstrated himself to be profoundly emotionally unstable is going to have the legal ability to launch a pre-emptive nuclear attack.
Now, i'm not going to worry about it, because what the fuck would be the point? If it happens it happens. Our best opportunity to keep it from happening was on Tuesday. There are plenty of other things we can and should do.
For me, the value of reading the dire articles (and writing my share of dire stuff) is because humans are extraordinarily resilient creatures. We are just amazingly, amazingly adaptable to all sorts of changes. We may have a couple sleepless nights, but by and large, we roll with them.
I feel like it would be comparatively easy for me to allow trump's america to become a new normal. To bitch and complain about trump as if he were any other shitty politician. To talk about the ground game instead of about beliefs and values.
I'm more afraid of this than I am of anything Trump might do.
