Mary Trump - Waking up to the End of America

I went to bed just after 7:00 a.m. so I already knew, but it wasn’t until I woke up a couple of hours later that I fully processed what this country had done. Nothing seemed right—the sun shone too brightly and the American flag that flies on the roof of a building a couple of blocks away from me wasn’t at half mast. Surely, it should have been.

This is much worse than 2016, but today I am possessed of an exquisite detachment that, while I know it is bad for me, I will hold onto for as long as I can. Because I really did think we were better than this, and I don’t want to confront the feelings associated with recognizing just how wrong I was.

I can't really offer you much in the way of comfort. There is a lot that's going to be playing out in the next days, weeks, and months, and we are going to have to grapple with all of it under pretty unimaginable circumstances. There's no false hope; no silver lining.

I don’t think Vice President Kamala Harris could have run a better, more professional, more inspiring campaign. It was nearly flawless, but for many reasons rooted in our dark and desperate and unacknowledged history, too many people refused to buy into her message of hope and unity. Too many people want what Donald Trump has to offer them. It will not serve them well.

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