There's Got To Be A Morning After; and There Was.

    On election day, visions of a Republican "red wave" sweeping through Congress depressed me.  Like many, I believed that a Republican landslide would augur an inevitable return of Trump to the White House in 2024.  My mood might be best expressed by this Robert Frost poem:

                            Once By The Pacific

                    The shattered water made a misty din.

                    Great waves looked over others coming in,

                    And thought of doing something to the shore

                    That the water water never did to land before.

                    The clouds were low and hairy in the skies,

                    Like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes.

                    You could not tell, and yet it looked as if 

                    The shore was lucky in being baked by cliff,

                    The cliff in being backed by continent;

                    It looked as if an night of dark intent

                    Was coming, and not only a night, an age.

                    Someone had better be prepared  for rage.

                    There would be more than ocean-water broken

                    Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.

   

The next morning I woke to surprising news.  The red wave turned out to be a ripple.  Best of all, many of Trump supported lying election deniers lost their races.  Perhaps lying isn't the best way to attract voters after all.  That's not a lesson Trump will ever learn.  When asked if he is responsible for the election results, Trump said he deserved credit if his supported candidates won, but not blame if they lost.  As for Mehmet Oz's defeat, he simply blamed his wife.