“Winter is coming. I told you so”: Writers respond to Trump’s win
Watching Trump win the election rendered many of us speechless. There don’t seem to be words, emoji, or guttural noises appropriate to describe what it feels like to see the outcome of this election. Like any sentiment that seems too horrible to comprehend, we gain a modicum of comfort from writers, those with the power to translate raw emotion into something coherent. Authors and essayists have been diligently putting into language what many of us are feeling this morning, rounded up by our literary friends at Lithub.
George R.R. Martin predicts winter is coming in his blog post titled “President Pussygrabber”:
There are really no words for how I feel this morning.
America has spoken. I really thought we were better than this. Guess not.
Trump was the least qualified candidate ever nominated by a major party for the presidency. Come January, he will become the worst president in American history, and a dangerously unstable player on the world stage.
And the decimated Democrats, a minority in both House and Senate, do not have the power to hinder him.
Over the next four years, our problems are going to get much, much worse.