‘Reborn in the USA’

How the world reacted, according to some international front pages. And why the media STILL must stop the sanitizing and soft-pedaling

Hard to believe, isn’t it, that Election Day was only a week ago? At this time last week — Tuesday morning — we had no idea of the stunning news that awaited us.

Soon after it became clear that the Trump movement had received a nationwide gut punch, I did a couple of things.

One was to write a deadline column for the Guardian, which reflected my reaction that a wave of decency had overcome the horrible era in which “the cruelty is the point.”

An excerpt: “For those millions of us who continued to nurse our battered idealism, the outcome was restorative, if shocking in its sweep.” I celebrated the diversity of the winners and called the results “a promise of better days ahead, of reform and accountability, and of an era when we may once again think of America and feed proud.”

You can read it here, and let me know if you think I was being too optimistic. Let me know your reaction to the election, too, of course. I will read your comments with great interest, as always.