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NY Times columnist: ‘I think I m experiencing democracy grief’

NY Times opinion columnist Michelle Goldberg has coined a new term for the left s misery over the election of President Trump: Democracy grief. According to Goldberg, the feeling that some environmentalists have about climate change is called climate grief. Democracy grief is the equivalent for those who believe a second Trump term will mark the end of liberal democracy in the Unites States:

via hotair.com

Most people experience something like this in their early 20s, when they realize everything they learned in college was wrong. But then, I suppose not everybody is like this, especially if what you learned in college seems true to you.