How to hope in a near-hopeless time?

Thoughts on our horrendous loss two weeks ago

Friends,

It’s been just two weeks, but it feels like an eternity.

It feels like an eternity because of the immensity of the loss — not just the loss of the election but the seeming loss of America. Not just America, but the apparent loss of the world as we knew it.

In reality, we lost by a relatively small number of votes, but in our winner-take-all syst…