America Finally Breaks Up With Her Abusive Boyfriend

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Will everything be perfect? Obviously not—we’re looking at divided government, and half the country needs to be deprogrammed. But now, the madness has an end date.


Molly Jong-Fast
Editor-At-Large
Published Nov. 08, 2020


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I knew a Biden victory was coming. We all did. The math made a Trump win almost impossible. The writing was on the wall. Even Rupert Murdoch had admitted it was over. He had used the cover of the New York Post to send that message to his figurehead—the headline read “Ready, Set, Joe,” accompanied by a photo of a cheerful Joe Biden.

And if that wasn’t enough, Laura Ingraham had used her television program to very gingerly tell Trump it was over. But until the race was called, I had this nagging feeling like something could still go wrong, like 2016 could theoretically still happen again. I worried that networks wouldn’t call it, or Trump would cheat, or something would go horribly wrong maybe involving the Supreme Court or something. It was largely an anxiety and not a real concrete idea, but it still weighed on me.

And Donald Trump had been more than a president. He had been an occupying force in all our minds. So much of my life has been taken up by Trump, his corruption, his kids, his tweets. I don’t know how many pieces I’ve written about the Trump grift, about the kleptocracy, about the misogyny, about the racism, about the stupidity, about the kids in the cages who weren’t given soap. My America had become this cruel dystopia that I had read about in books, and I had been powerless to do a thing about it.

The problem with electing an autocrat who happens also to be a reality television host is that he wants to be the star of the American government and wants to be a star of all our lives. Trump has sucked up all the oxygen for the last four years. He’s been a movie star and dictator and a cult leader and a hideous distraction from our normal lives.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/america-finally-breaks-up-with-her-abusive-boyfriend

[Clearly fogged in]

1. Wow. definitely a good read.

[Biophilic]

2. Well, isn't that the truth

Sucked up all the oxygen. Finally, we can take some deep breaths. We know it isn't over, but being able to take a deep breath feels so liberating. And, you know, deep breathing leads to light headedness and the giggles. Yeah, I'm there.