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Post-Election: I Am Working Through My Feelings
The sense that I have somehow been betrayed keeps washing over me.
Remember these sentiments?
Four years after standing on stage at his own inauguration and painting a dire picture of “American carnage,” Trump departed the office twice impeached, with millions more out of work and 400,000 dead from the coronavirus. Republicans under his watch lost the presidency and both chambers of Congress. He is likely to forever be remembered for the final major act of his presidency: encouraging an insurrection at the Capitol that left five dead, including a Capitol Police officer, and horrified the nation.
Trump will retire to Florida with a small group of former White House aides as he charts a political future that looks very different now than just two weeks ago (Vowing ‘Return in Some Form’).
Sorry for rubbing salt in your unhealed wounds. It pains me, too, to see these words. It seems like just yesterday, he was a pariah. The Trump name, for many, had become similar to the name “Mudd.” Doctor Samuel Mudd mended the leg of John Wilkes Booth after he broke it when jumping onto the stage during his assassination of President Lincoln. Dr. Mudd had no idea who Booth was when he arrived. Later, Mudd was arrested as a co-conspirator, and “Mudd” became…
