In the broadest sense, I get that impulse. Hope for the best in the face of very long odds. It’s like we’re on a plane and we just found out our pilot is a wombat. I don’t like this. I don’t understand how it happened, and I’m pretty sure we’re headed for disaster, but what the hell? Come on, Batty, prove me wrong! And the thing is optimism is nice if you can swing it, but you’ve got to be careful because it can feed into the normalization of Donald Trump — and he is not normal. He is abnormal. He’s a human “What is wrong with this picture?” He sticks out like a sore thumb, and frankly, he even looks like a sore thumb. So giving him a chance in the sense of not speaking out immediately against policies he’s proposed is dangerous. Because some of them are alarming.