This poster at the Atlantic makes a lot of good points.

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13. I'm with you, LisaM. You perfectly described me in that second paragraph.

The squandering of a resource like that STILL hurts. I STILL want those brains in the Oval Office. I STILL want that level of achievement, intellect, logic, reason, experience, circumspection, and practicality in the Oval Office. Even while knowing she (and we) won't ever get there. Eventually, just by law of probability, we'll have a woman president someday. She would have been OUTSTANDING as the first one. I wanted HER to have that place in history, I wanted it for me, I wanted it for all the women in America, I wanted it for all the PEOPLE in America. I wanted it for all the women - and all the people - in the world. It'll happen one day, but it won't be Hillary, and we are all the poorer for that. She uniquely had the makings of a world-class-superb president. And we'll never have that.

As desperately as we need it, we'll never have that. And Good Grief does that ever hurt.

I'm with you on something else, too. I don't think I can ever EVER look at or feel the sam about any republi-CON again. My new default on those who stand by trump and/or the GOP at this point is "so what does that say about YOU, then?"