Ramona, thanks so much for sharing your original article. Whenever I think about the run-up to the 2016 election, I can’t help but marvel at how innocent and naive Americans were, and how much we believed the propaganda that the press was feeding us.
I remember waking up on the morning of November 9, 2016 to my husband telling me that “trump won.” I laughed and said, “Yeah, right.”
Ramona, thanks so much for sharing your original article. Whenever I think about the run-up to the 2016 election, I can’t help but marvel at how innocent and naive Americans were, and how much we believed the propaganda that the press was feeding us.
I remember waking up on the morning of November 9, 2016 to my husband telling me that “trump won.” I laughed and said, “Yeah, right.”
I woke up in the middle of the night on election night, 2016, and knew it was all over for Hillary. I spent the rest of the night crying and trying not to be horrified. I never did say at any point that it wouldn't be so bad. I knew it would be, beyond anything we could imagine.
Yes, Ramona, I spent that night the same way and walked around in a fog for days. Then just like you and many others, I put my head down, educated myself with facts, and bit by bit got to work. Thank you for your writing and for creating a space for those that love this country and our freedoms to gather. Vote 💙🇺🇸💙
There are so many of us who have seen the light and all agree, yet, even as a super-collective, we don’t have the clout or the power. Ordinary citizens never do.
So far our democracy has functioned mainly via a political courtesy system and not by strict laws, something we never realized until Trump came along and shattered everything to pieces. For someone as ignorant as he is, he did manage to surround himself with equally evil yet much savvier anarchists.
I literally tried to run away from Trump's win. There was an ice storm here in Washington State, and I took my eight month old puppy into the woods to run off my grief and horror. I slipped on the ice, broke my right wrist in two places, and spent ten weeks in a cast unable to write. It's so healing now to read on Substacks that others felt as i did, not just then but for the years that followed with the image of Trump still lurking behind Hillary like a monster predator.
Ramona, thanks so much for sharing your original article. Whenever I think about the run-up to the 2016 election, I can’t help but marvel at how innocent and naive Americans were, and how much we believed the propaganda that the press was feeding us.
I remember waking up on the morning of November 9, 2016 to my husband telling me that “trump won.” I laughed and said, “Yeah, right.”
I woke up in the middle of the night on election night, 2016, and knew it was all over for Hillary. I spent the rest of the night crying and trying not to be horrified. I never did say at any point that it wouldn't be so bad. I knew it would be, beyond anything we could imagine.
And it was.
And it still is.
Yes, Ramona, I spent that night the same way and walked around in a fog for days. Then just like you and many others, I put my head down, educated myself with facts, and bit by bit got to work. Thank you for your writing and for creating a space for those that love this country and our freedoms to gather. Vote 💙🇺🇸💙
There are so many of us who have seen the light and all agree, yet, even as a super-collective, we don’t have the clout or the power. Ordinary citizens never do.
So far our democracy has functioned mainly via a political courtesy system and not by strict laws, something we never realized until Trump came along and shattered everything to pieces. For someone as ignorant as he is, he did manage to surround himself with equally evil yet much savvier anarchists.
And right wing billionaires.
And radical ‘Christians’.
And Russian assets.
All aided by a reckless American press.
All so true. Sadly.
I literally tried to run away from Trump's win. There was an ice storm here in Washington State, and I took my eight month old puppy into the woods to run off my grief and horror. I slipped on the ice, broke my right wrist in two places, and spent ten weeks in a cast unable to write. It's so healing now to read on Substacks that others felt as i did, not just then but for the years that followed with the image of Trump still lurking behind Hillary like a monster predator.