Abcarian: Don’t fall into total despair, Harris supporters. There was some good election night news
I share the pain of those who are deeply disappointed that Americans have chosen, for the second time, an unhinged, misogynistic, racist strongman for president. A majority voted for a former president described as a “fascist” by his own former staff members, who has promised “mass deportations” of the millions of undocumented immigrants, who has vowed to reinstate his misbegotten Muslim ban, who intimates that he will hand Ukraine over to Russian President Vladimir Putin and allow Israel free rein in Gaza. I will leave the election post-mortems to people whose jobs it is to figure out how and why Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democrats failed to make their case, and what the party must now do to regain the trust and votes of the frustrated working-class Americans and others who have deserted them in droves. As a mother, grandmother, aunt, friend and proud Californian, my assignment now is to look forward, and to help those I love find some shards of hope in this dark moment. After all, some good things happened Tuesday night. For starters, this interminable campaign is finally over.
