Don’t worry; it makes no sense. Here’s how his brain works: first, he has an impression. This isn’t a clear thought, but a felt sense of something— “Weak” or “Corrupt” or “No puppet.” Basically like a baby, but with smaller hands.

Well, it’s not just random sour grapes. It’s that she won the popular vote by the widest margin of any losing candidate in our entire history. When you look at that and see how the clear will of the people didn’t matter, it’s mostly logical to think, “This doesn’t seem right at all.” Because it isn’t.

“Anchoring my existence without the signposts...” is the biggest challenge, I think. Not because your existence doesn’t have its own signposts, but because you are continually pulled outside yourself to meet the accepted signposts of the culture. It’s exhausting to keep trying to carve out your own meaning when it’s…