So President “Gish Gallop” and his equally mendacious offspring are continuing to distract us from the real damage he is inflicting on this country — from destroying the federal judiciary to dragging his feet on helping Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands to destroying health care to …. Please let me wake up from this nightmare of 2017. We are living in the Biff parallel timeline with no way to return to the real world.

OTOH — what did our parents, grandparents, or great grandparents think when they were facing WWI or the influenza pandemic or the Great Depression or WWII? Some of us feared nuclear war when younger or had friends sent to Vietnam or saw the upheavals during the 1960’s and 70’s. Maybe we will pull through this after all. As long as we keep fighting and not let ourselves get enmeshed in despair.