There are people who have been without a voice for so long, that any booming one would do I was a little drunk on Wednesday night, which was an entirely appropriate, if not mandatory reaction to the US Election results. Not unlike the question of who supported apartheid and the Nats, this too seemed to fall into the definition of an immaculate election. Nobody I know, and nobody who knows anyone one I know and so on down the degrees-of separation scale knows anyone who admits to supporting Trump. Except about 50% of Americans who voted - about 60[1] million.Since then I have sunk into the quicksand of the many online comments and commentaries - from staid to emotional, from considered to reactive, and have found myself a little perplexed. The descriptions of Trump - a con-man, a boor, a sexist, a misogynist, a bigot, a fraud, a liar, a narcissist and so-on are reasonably well-grounded descriptions based on hours of startling video and audio footage dating back decades.But this has...
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