RACHEL A.G. REYES
I AM not by nature a pessimist, but it is getting harder not to think the worst is yet to come. The newly elected “leader of the free world” is an unabashed sexist bigot, billionaire tax evader, climate change denier, endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan. Women, immigrants and ethnic minorities, Muslims, Jews, refugees, gay people, cosmopolitans, the world economy, even the planet itself, have now good reason to fear. Donald Trump will be moving into the White House. What might America become and what will be the global consequences?