Hoping to share some empathy.

I was optimistic that Kamala would win, because I thought Americans would refuse to make an indecent person president. I avoided the news Tuesday night, so Wednesday morning I woke up hopeful. Needless to say I was gut-punched by the outcome. I had put too much faith in the decency of Americans, and this is the saddest aspect of this whole debacle. I only hope that many of Trump's supporters were delusional, and not that they truly embraced his lunacy.

It's too early to really understand how I want to respond to this, other than to try to spread kindness to the people I care about. (And to my cats.)