The Cornell Daily Sun reports that students hosted a “Cry In” on the quad Wednesday in the wake of the presidential election results.

“I’m quite terrified, honestly,” one student told the campus newspaper as she took part in the event. “It’s saying that people are really given into fear-mongering. They are willing to put people down based on their identity just so that they would feel vindicated that they would be getting rid of ‘Crooked Hillary.’”

How inspiring.

Rest assured that terrorists or anyone else who wants to blow up America have nothing to fear from the likes of this student. Nor any candidates this student would support. If survival is a goal, which includes not being blown up by some Islamic militant whose rights and feelings have been sustained by the spirit of political correctness, this Cornell student should be happy we might have someone in office willing to fight back.

Watching the outcry against Trump’s election victory by disappointed progressives reminds one of an addict going off drugs. Think about it. An addiction refers to something you believe you must have, and that your body comes to need, in the case of physical addiction. The whole socialist-progressive point-of-view relies on a compulsive, addiction-like quest for raw power. Power means things like control of Congress, control of the Supreme Court, and control of the alphabet soup agencies in the federal government — FCC, FEC, FDA, EPA, all the rest.

When faced with the prospect of virtually no power over these things, at least for the next 2-4 years and maybe beyond, it makes things more intolerable than progressives could ever express through their cry-ins, sit-ins, declarations of outrage on social media, pouty refusal to speak to associates they know (or suspect) voted for Trump, and threats to financially or even physically harm those with whom they disagree.

Not just fervent Trump supporters, but anyone who has challenged the premises and actions of the Obama years, is used to it. We’re used to being called racists, not because we’re racists, but because we support things like a free market for medicine, eliminating Obamacare, cutting taxes, curbing or cutting the EPA, and all the rest. Progressives think they’re having an impact when they shriek “racist” at you (or Donald Trump) without any basis in fact, but all it generates is an internal chuckle.

The problem with progressives isn’t just their morally unjustified and economically impractical socialist, statist views. It’s deeper than that. They feel entitled to have their views imposed on the population, which is why it’s so important for them to retain political power, particularly in the White House and on the Supreme Court. When they look around and see that just as many people disagree with them as agree with them (in places like Ohio it was a landslide), it frightens them and throws them into rage. In a way, the rage is healthy. Anxiety is the psyche’s way of asserting its own survival, of keeping one from giving in or giving up. But when the rage is based on the false premises and inauthentic promises of the social engineering so haplessly advanced by Hillary Clinton in her recent campaign, it’s not a pretty thing to watch.

Trump’s election proves that you don’t always get everything you want in life. What Trump actually does in office we’ll know soon enough. But right now he’s a glaring reminder that because much of what Barack Obama did in office was via the one-sided imposition of executive order, all that can now be undone. And if Donald Trump proves any good at what he does, all or most of it will be.

What on earth did these progressives and Democrats expect? Obama heaped executive order after executive order on 50-51 percent of the population without any concern for their wants, rights or needs. He did so with snide comments such as, “Try winning an election,” or with Joe Biden’s label of Obamacare opponents as “economic terrorists.” How did they think the perpetually pushed around opposition (apparently a majority) would eventually respond? No screams and cries of “racist” can change the fact that leftist progressives brought Donald Trump on themselves.

People have coined the term “crybullies” to describe the emotional state of people going off their activist government drug. It’s more than temporarily losing your job in government, if that’s what you do. It’s the idea that you no longer have the power to force your opinions and directives — in taxes, in health care, in education, in anything the progressive deems important — on the population. Bullying is what socialism and progressivism stand for, after all: The use of government force to make or shape people into what you believe they should think and be. It’s everything they accuse Trump supporters, or anyone not progressive, of being.

It’s truly a fascinating and awesome thing to watch. It’s also quite sad.