The unease set in early. While Americans were voting on Tuesday afternoon, we were sifting through public opinion polls trying to analyze what was wrong. Donald Trump was acting unusual. We assumed it was either the stress of the campaign or heavy doses of Valium. After all, how much experience at this did he have?
Trump’s last public act before the vote count was to start to sue one of the western states for letting people vote.
Our search of the polls proved nothing other than pollsters do a lot of bad guessing. People lie to pollsters. And if you were going to vote for a disaster such as Trump, would you not also lie?
This was not voting; this was giving Washington the bird. Yah, Washington is dysfunctional. That is hardly Hillary Clinton’s fault.
And yet thinking back over this marathon of an election, we had little to say about Hillary Clinton. She was just the candidate for one of the parties. Bernie Sanders was far more interesting. He addressed the real concerns while Clinton was the same-old, same-old.
It is too bad about the Obama legacy. He was a good president. Trump will make him look like a place-holder.
This is supposed to be a mia culpa. We screwed up. We only gave four to one odds on Trump. We can share the guilt with about 40 million Americans.
It hardly mattered that Hillary Clinton won the presidential debates. It was Donald Trump who won the presidency. America can repent at leisure.
It is fascinating to think of the Americans having a president who does not believe in telling the truth. He can spend the next four years lining his own pockets while impoverishing the people who voted for him. He is a person without ethics or morals, a lecher and a misogynist, and a confirmed liar with no understanding of the job of president.
The wife has had us planning to spend some of the harsher winter weeks on a trip around the Gulf Coast of Texas. Thanks, but no thanks. We are going to hunker down in our catbird seat here in Canada and be thankful that our political leaders are at least house broke.
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