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The Day After November 8, 2017 By David Perry, A year ago, I went to bed assured that I would awake to a Democratic President: a woman, a progressive – not him. I was wrong. I was complacent. We all were. The NY Times (complete with graphics)   told us that “Hillary Clinton has a 90% chance of winning the Presidency!” That wasn’t helpful. Trump won, and for the last year, sales of antacid tablets soared (as did bar tabs) and many a TV bore the brunt of heel marks from shoes thrown at screens every time “he” appeared. Of course, “he” appeared A LOT. Escaping “him” was impossible. Until last night. A year ago, I went to bed cocky, spoiled, entitled, gay-and-legally-married and feeling a bit superior: A Black president, now a woman! Soon, aliens from another planet will come and welcome us into the great kumbaya of extraterrestrial togetherness! I was wrong. Here on earth, the “elites” and the know-it-all-know-nothings lost to the “just say nos” of the last eig...

A Summer Without Trump (kinda) by David Perry Well….he’s still here. When my husband and I left the United States in late June for a summer working abroad, I made myself a promise:  NO TRUMP.  Eschewing all social media and reading only non-American news, I had hoped to gain not only a greater insight into my own country, but also to hear how Europeans felt about the United States and its new president.  It worked – for a while. It worked – until Charlottesville. As a native Virginian, for me the weekend of August 11, 2017 was a Trump too far.  For four days, I fell into the rancid rabbit hole of news from that hideous event: Nazis, KKK, an innocent young woman mowed down by a car, the President of the United States equating proactive racism with reactive protest. I wrote an editorial. It was published several places.  Ditto for hundreds, if not thousands – millions of others – around the globe, crying out in Facebooked outrage and Twittered angst over th...