Unhinged Over-reactions To The Election

My daughter told me about someone coming up to her after Donald Trump’s election as if to comfort her, saying how she would be “safe” here in Australia.

It’s a common theme I’m seeing on TV interviews, social media, and in the liberal press: “I am so frightened.” Columns on how to calm your children’s fears of Donald Trump. Videos of Clinton supporters weeping and pouting. “It’s worse than 9/11!”

The spectacle of such timorous, weepy, faint-hearted citizens is deeply embarrassing. I suppose it is just another manifestation of the delicate, hot-house sensibilities associated with university campuses. There is no trigger warning for Donald Trump.

This emotional weakness is manifested in another way: by the protests, riots, and calls to assassinate the President-elect.

However he does as president, we may hope that the Trump Era will mark the end of passive-aggressive sensitivity and hysterical over-reactions. I don’t think such feelings can be sustained for the four years of Trump’s term of office, let alone four more years if he is re-elected. Maybe Americans on all sides of the issues will toughen up.