Hope: that was Obama’s thing. The current president inspires nothing, except perhaps disgust.

I won’t be traveling to the US until the country is properly united again, and that won’t happen under the present “leader.” The incoming Democrats will have to work hard just to stop the slide, and perhaps make some progress beyond that. I wish them well.

In a decade or two, the country *may *be on a better trajectory. We’ll wait and see.