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The day after the 2016 election, when everyone was freaking out about a Trump upset, I wrote this: “Look, the adrenali
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e is pumping today. It was an upset. But tomorrow everything will be back to a blissful non-election normal. You’ll go to work, drink your coffee, get a call from school that your little darling just vomited over a classmate. All those normal things. Before the election cycle began, you didn’t think all that much about who the president was, and you’ll go back to that.” Boy w
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s I wrong! Things never went back to normal. And now, 8 years