As a octogenarian, identifiable minority, American, I am distressed at what I see in our highest office.  But, we voted him in -- we cannot separate the man from the electorate.  And this gnaws at the optimism and hope I have for my grand daughters. Their contemporaries have grandparents and parents who find appeal in the rhetoric of white and Christian supremacy and perhaps, even misogyny.  Perhaps, too, this base disbelieves that our species is not a creature unto itself, disrespecting the whole earth and all on it.     Theirs will be a brave new world -- I do hope they have the character and  resiliency to make something better out of this.