It’s Election night, and it’s looking like the worst case scenario will probably come to pass. The New York Times projects Donald Trump as the likely winner of the presidential election, with the majority of the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin seeming to tilt in his favor as of this moment. The House and Senate races have been disappointingly Republican as well, and the heartbreak of queer people can be heard around the country. And as always, around the Internet.
There’s one question on everyone’s mind, the one we were too scared to contemplate.
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There’s also the realization that we’ll probably find out for sure in the most depressing way possible.
All we can do right now is give in to our Mickey Rourke instincts and curse the high heavens. He really spoke for all of us with one.
We’re feeling all kinds of emotions: mad, sad, angry, depressed, tired, scared.
We’re wondering what went wrong, on so many levels, for this to be the outcome.
It’s a sad outcome, and we need to feel the full extent of that sadness.
But one thing is certain: we’ll survive. As we always have, and always will.
We also—now more than ever—have to keep in mind that not all is lost. Good things happened during this election.
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