Look on the bright side. The border wall won’t become a reality because it’s literally impossible. The geography would never support it even if you wanted to do it, and it’s so ruinously expensive it would never be approved. And even if it were approved, well, it would be a political debacle once it became clear what…

Forgive me for saying so, but the Democrats are just as conditioned to believe half the country is literally evil. You can’t go five feet in the comments without finding someone saying precisely half the country is racist, misogynist, bigoted, bible-thumping immigration-hating rednecks. No people with legitimate…

I do not doubt that what you say is true to some degree. I’m simply skeptical about magnitude. In a polarized 2 party system you could nominate a goldfish and get 40% of the vote. Most people will vote for their team regardless. But even those who voted for trump often disagreed sharply with him on immigration, Muslim…

Well, what can I say except, we’re stuck with it for the moment. So I see no reason to go looking for trouble.

Not dead. Not yet. We have stumbled, as we have before and surely will again. Make no mistake, I grieve just as you do. Perhaps this will make you feel a little better: http://waitbutwhy.com/2016/11/its-going-to-be-okay.html

Sorry, when you say he, do you mean Trump? I’m unsure which part of my comment you’re referring to.

To offer a slightly contrasting view, Trump and the Republicans won the presidency, fair and square. We now, all of us, have a vested interest in the President’s success. His successes are our successes, and his failures will hurt us all. I loathe Donald Trump and everything he stands for. He has so far embodied…

If you’re upset that Trump won (as I am), you want to look into how to beat him next time. If you want to beat him next time, you need to understand the reasons, the real reasons, he won this time. Not some comforting story that can be summed up in a single sentence. If progressives hope to learn from this defeat,…

Addendum: Last I heard last night, Trump had won 51% of the female vote, but that number has been revised to 44%. However, my point stands.

Forgive me for saying so but it seems pretty silly to suggest that 110 million voters were single issue voters and that that issue was “being racist”. It is not adult thinking to paint so large a group with so broad a brush. Trump won over 50% of women. Does that mean most women are mysogynists?

I honestly hope that he is the President you hope him to be, and not the man he has shown himself to be. Beyond policies, beyond ideology, the first quality a President must have is the ability to run something without running it into a ditch or burning it to the ground. I’ve seen nothing to indicate that Donald Trump…

First you mourn. Then you stand up, brush yourself off, and get back to it.

In retrospect, that may have been a mistake.

To paint 109 million people with the broad brush of racism is not, I think, the act of a rational mind. But racist or not, their candidate’s racism was not enough to dissuade them. More probably, what we see here is simple tribalism and partisanship. You could put a mannequin on stage for either party and it would…

To minorities, to Muslims, to the LGBT people out there, to the poor, to women: I am so sorry. We failed you. We’ve all failed you.

Some prices are too high to pay. :(

Most people are. It looks like shell win the popular vote.

As someone who works in software, when you don’t have a concrete plan or aren’t ready to talk about something, “were discussing it internally” is about all you can say. Anything more before you’re willing to commit just causes problems.

You forgot my favorite from Gawker: “malevolent summer squash”.

Who gets to decide what’s on this test, or when a citizen is smart enough to vote? :)