I'm not responding to anybody in particular, but this certainly seems like it needs to be said.

This was a [i]brutally negative[/i] campaign. That doesn't go away overnight. People who are upset have a right to be upset.

[i]What I hope people realize is[/i], everything we think we know about Donald is a product of campaigning, both the positive (he's gonna solve everything! Yay!) and the negative (He's literally hitler! Boo!). The feelings [i]we all[/i] have right now are natural. It [i]might[/i] be a mistake to think of those feelings as permanent or definitive -- this man has never once in his life held public office or undertaken public service of any kind. 

There is literally no point in arguing over what this means. Nobody knows what this means. Trump voters bet on a flush draw (a risky hand, for non-poker-people) and the flop gave them two more cards. It's not over yet and the rest of the cards are invisible, so [i]by all means[/i], place your bets -- but we don't yet whether this gamble will pay off. It might. It might not. I sure hope it does.

Last thing, then I'll be done -- the whole world is on the same side here. It doesn't feel that way in November and I get it, this time it was even worse. We've had about 20 unbroken years of criminalized presidential politics (from Clinton the Rapist to Bush the War Criminal to Obama the Traitor to Clinton the Corrupt to Trump the Also Rapist). Does it feel like that's helping, to anybody? Or is that maybe contributing to the partisanship so strong that we could be stuck with Trump-Clinton in the first place? [i]Maybe[/i] -- and this is easy to say from right of center, I know -- but [i]maybe[/i] we should let the mean bad guy fire some people we didn't have the guts to fire, and then try to start from a better place in two years? Two years, by the way, not four -- don't forget to vote in your congressional primaries next year.