Your thoughts on the protests

[Tonus]

The protests, or rather the belief of those protesting or otherwise expressing fear at the election results, is disturbing.

To me, they're only disturbing to the extent that they lead to violence or other destructive behavior, like the assholes who attacked a Trump supporter.

But the doom-and-gloom prognostications are nothing new. I think they've been getting more and more hysterical over time, but that might simply be age and media access affecting my perception of it. I have no doubt that there were people who felt that the world was going to end when Reagan was elected, then when Bush was elected, then when Clinton was elected, then when Bush was elected, then when Obama was elected, and so on. I think Trump can do some damage as President because I don't think that he has enough of a mental filter to keep from doing and saying dumb things. But I also know that he isn't about to turn the nation into 1930s Germany.

I expect that we'll settle in after a few more days, then the hysteria will pick up again in January and for a month or so afterwards. Then things will settle down again and we'll spend the rest of the next four years making complaints that will sound very familiar to anyone who has followed politics for the past 15 or so years.