2016 Postmortem

I have one very dear friend who truly did not believe that trump had a snowball's chance of winning. He hates the Clintons with an absolute passion. He's a very honorable man and when Bill did his "I did not have sex with that woman", well that was all he wrote. If Clinton had accepted responsibility, apologized for his behavior, acknowledged it was not appropriate behavior for someone in the office, blah, blah, blah blah (you have no idea how many times I have heard this story) all would have been fine.

He believes that the Clintons are creatures of technicalities, in other words that skate just as close to the border of illegality as they can without doing something they can be charged with, in other words people with no honor. In my friend's defense he is one of the most honest men I have ever known. He's an excellent mechanic and will never be well-to-do because he insists on doing the job right even if he has to put in more hours than he feels he can charge you. Distances are great and the roads not so good in my part of rural America. We all are dependent on our vehicles to exist, county is larger than the state of CT with under 50,000 people. In other words it's a long drive to get anywhere and mass transit really isn't an option. He does more pro bono work than anyone I know keeping people on pensions, social security, etc. with cars and trucks working so they can get around.

I talked to him the day after the election and he was, and still is, devastated by the results. Granted WA was never in play and went solidly for Clinton but for him, the idea of someone like trump being president goes against everything he believes.

He's paying penance, donating to and getting involved in "Our Revolution". He's my friend and I'm proud of how he's handling his mistake. Probably not too many cases like his but he's a good guy and he voted for trump.