Another senior Wall Street banker and a longtime Clinton supporter called me from Davos to explain that he agreed it was time to move on. “I am sitting here where millionaires are explaining to billionaires how to talk about the middle class,” he said. “If you thought I was going to be doing this the week of the fucking inauguration, you’re sadly mistaken.” He agreed with Zimmerman that there is no time to dwell on the past, especially since nothing can be done to make Hillary Clinton president. “Let’s be clear,” he said. “Elections have consequences, right?” Yes, he conceded, Hillary’s loss was “painful,” especially “for anyone who has spent time working” on the issues that she cared about, only to see Trump go off in a completely different direction. “But there are plenty of people who would have felt the same way if Secretary Clinton had won, right?” he continued. “People would have had their feelings hurt. So yeah, I don’t think it’s unnatural.”

He said that Trump’s behavior during the transition period has exacerbated his feelings of loss, in large part because it has been so far outside established norms. “He’s not a normal candidate,” he said of Trump. “And that’s just the reality. So all sense of norms—of what most of us believe is the kind of what you do after you’ve won—has been tossed out the window. . . . The problem is it’s kind of numbing because there’s so much. It’s not just one single thing. It’s the ‘how he got himself elected.’ So I guess it’s hard to argue. I could, but he won and we didn’t.”

He doubted that Trump will change as president, but he remained sanguine under the circumstances. “You want to wish him the best,” he said. “It’s not going to benefit anyone for him not to succeed, right? But there’s no question you sit around and say, kind of, ‘What if? What more could people have done to succeed?’ There’s a pretty dark sense of what could have been.”

All of which proves a truism about Wall Street: it is filled with practical, adaptable people. Sure, they have preferences—and serious ones—and are willing to back causes they believe in, both with their time and their money. But dwelling on what might have been is not a sentiment worth spending time on, not on Wall Street. The fact remains, there’s money to be made every day no matter who is in the White House. Time to hop to it.