Backstory

I'm looking forward to being proven wrong about many things...that an intellectually incoherent, constitutionally illiterate and tempermentally volcanic candidate Trump will morph into the opposite as President. But first, I need to do an autopsy of what I missed throughout his campaign to better understand the America I didn't see coming...

In July, I realized that pretty much everyone I knew was for Trump. Incredulous: after all, how could any reasonable person not see what I was seeing?! Still, their anger and passion was real so I set about seeking rational arguments for a Trump presidency. Short answer: the only one I could identify as real (though not rational) was "burn it to the ground".  I couldn't believe such upheaval would actually carry an election... first red flag. By the end of a long day of research, I couldn't admire Trump as a businessman or respect him as a person and had to come down on the side of the constitution.

Realizing it's all too easy to have the media reinforce a personal bias, I started combing through everything from rabid right-wing sources to 'tinfoil as hats' on the left; I wanted to get all spins to arrive at some semblance of balance. Along the way, my own values and beliefs became challenged, clarified or amended. Late in the game, I read something from the CNN website that became an "Aha" moment: I was taking Trump literally, but not seriously. His supporters were taking him seriously, but not literally...hence the hall pass on all his transgressions that would have torpedoed any other candidate in any other time.

Using a broad brush, I am:
Pissed off- because I even have to try to make sense of this
Sad- because I'm almost sure I won't like what I'll discover along the way...still...this needs to happen

Today's comment: seeing the protests across the country, can't help but think what a Clinton win would be looking like in an "open-carry" city