My daughter told me about someone coming up to her after Donald Trump’s election as if to comfort her, saying how she would be “safe” here in Australia.
It’s a common theme I’m seeing on TV interviews, social media, and in the liberal press: “I am so frightened.” Columns on how to calm your children’s fears of Donald Trump. Videos of Clinton supporters weeping and pouting. “It’s worse than 9/11!”
The spectacle of such timorous, weepy, faint-hearted citizens is deeply embarrassing. I suppose it is just another manifestation of the delicate, hot-house sensibilities associated with university campuses. There is no trigger warning for Donald Trump.
This emotional weakness is manifested in another way: by the protests, riots, and calls to assassinate the President-elect.
However he does as president, we may hope that the Trump Era will mark the end of passive-aggressive sensitivity and hysterical over-reactions. I don’t think such feelings can be sustained for the four years of Trump’s term of office, let alone four more years if he is re-elected. Maybe Americans on all sides of the issues will toughen up.
