Here’s my hope. This last election is not representative of humanity. It is representative of a part of humanity–a part that has been aggressively chased away through rapid enlightenment resulting from unprecedented accessibility of information.

Except that this part of humanity hasn’t gone away. Instead, it’s been backed into a corner, far too quickly, and like a scared dog it is biting out in desperation.

As my friend Elizabeth Miller put it (correct me if I’m paraphrasing incorrectly), it’s the last desperate attempt of the figurative “old, white male” to maintain power against liberal and progressive ideas that have pushed too far, too fast.

I think we’ll suffer some backlash over the next few years, but I’m hopeful that after that we’ll see even more healthy progress for humanity than ever before.

Unless he launches the nukes before then…