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What I decidedly do not get is the weeping, gnashing of teeth and pearl-clutching (thanks to John Moore of Newstalk 1010 for the latter) that is going on in the wake of the U.S. election.

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The morning after, the airwaves were full of earnest news anchors interviewing psychologists and the like on the best way to break the terrible news to the frightened children of America and Canada.

This, I figured, was simply more evidence of what CBS News writer Will Rahn this week described as the “unbearable smugness” of the press, wherein most journalists, cut from the same #WithHer cloth and with a “shamefully limited understanding of the country,” treated Trump supporters as backward yobs and believe that it is our continuing duty not to fix ourselves, but to reeducate them about the dangerous thing they wrought with their votes.

Part of that, of course, is accepting as gospel the tearful assertions from parents that their kids were shattered by the Trump victory.

Still, on another level, fair enough.

I am not a parent, and perhaps my not inconsiderable observation of other people’s youngsters has mistakenly led me to see them as akin to rubber balls, in that they are resilient little devils who can take pretty much whatever life throws at them so long as they have at least one reasonably sane adult in their lives.

But over the next post-election days the theme endured and spread such that Friday, on the front page of the arts section of another national Canadian newspaper, over a big picture of Trump, there was a headline which read, “Mommy, why does he look so happy? And why do you look so sad?”