As a young sage I know likes to say, “It is what it is!” which, apparently, suggests that something has happened and we have to live with it. I guess that pretty well sums up where we are as we await the second Trump administration. Like many of you, I’m still processing the election results and am in a state of “watchful waiting,” a phrase associated with Woodrow Wilson’s failed efforts to stay out of the Great War. Let’s hope for something better this time.
On the positive side, it has been a great relief to have the election over and put an end to the cacophony of texts, emails, phone calls and TV talking heads for a while. Like most presidential elections, there is the opportunity to start fresh with an optimism that we’ll come together for the good of the nation. And, naively perhaps, there is the optimism that Trump, like some previous presidents, just might jettison his sordid past and rise to the occasion to do good things for his country, if not his legacy.
If the headlines are to be believed, we are in for a “soap opera,” if not disaster, the next four years. Let’s hope not. As the young sage might say, “it remains to be seen.”