If I'd known that the media would make up for Trump's lack of desire to actually do the work a normal campaign does, I would've thought him to be the perfect candidate for the Republican Party of 2016. The whole campaign had turned out in most of the ways I'd expected: Clinton could ride the wave of the good will around Obama straight through to the nomination (and though I thought Bernie did a really good job, it was never even close), Clinton would run to the left of where we normally think of her, someone totally batshit would win the nomination - my money was on Cruz it just felt like the Republican base was ready for red meat or nothing, and Clinton would be our next President. I knew that there was hatred remaining (I'll talk about that more in another post), but I thought that given the quality of the Clinton campaign, the experience and competence of Hillary Clinton, the incompetence and boorishness of Donald Trump, and the changing demographics of the country, I hadn't even considered the possibility of Trump beating Clinton until the returns started coming in.

Until about 10 PM on Election Day, I was the most optimistic for the future of this country that I'd ever been. It sounds facile because I don't think it needs much explaining, but Barack Obama did amazing things during his tenure. It's a good thing this is MY blog, and I allow swearing, but I need stronger words than 'HOLY FUCKING SHIT' because I cannot shake the feeling that I have seen the best days of this country in my lifetime. When I started this blog, I was planning to cover the ins-and-outs of corporate consolidation, which remains of interest to me.Ī week ago, that seemed like our biggest problem.

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