Back when Trump secured enough delegates to win the Republican nomination, I bet a bunch of my liberal friends that he’d win the presidency and well he did last night (I take no pleasure in it).  Trump’s message was easy and he rode a populist rage wave against the political establishment, one where Hillary Clinton represents everything that’s wrong with the political class.  Of course they’ll blame Bernie Sanders, the media, sexism, etc but in reality the Democratic party brought this onto itself.

What I don’t see people talking about (perhaps because they’re still in shock) is that Republicans control the House, Senate and will control the Supreme Court!  They don’t have a super majority in the Senate but it’s only a matter of time before the Republican majority use the “nuclear option” and remove the 60 vote requirement for appointees.

I told Maggie last night, if you believe in the parallel universe theory, there’s one where I’m celebrating Bernie’s victory.

The world can’t take another 4 years of US inaction on climate change (let alone 8 because incumbent presidents are hard to defeat), I’ll probably be dead before the worst effects of climate are upon us but I really do worry about Brandon’s generation and his children.