re: #172 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

More worrisome is the permission his election will give all the racists and sexists would until now have lived on the fringes of society. They have seen someone publicly be racist and sexist, and be rewarded for it. It’s going be like 1950 all over again, a nice decade to be nostalgic about, but not one in which I’d care to live as an adult. [As a baby, I had no real choice.]

I am in shell shock now, sitting here drinking a glass of red wine* and in some ways grateful I work outside the USA so I can be spared the worst of the aftermath, but also very sad to see the great progress we achieved under Obama go down the toilet.

Yeah, I’m feeling the same way. My students are in shock, and given Trump’s close ties to Putin, they’re worried what this means for the Czech Republic’s future.

I can’t imagine what the Baltic States must be thinking right now. They’re right in Putin’s crosshairs.