This "lost hope" idea has nothing to do with Catholic values.  We had a healing country that elected a black president who then tore all that healing to shreds with his incendiary remarks and false accusations of racism.  He brought about the racial divide he decried.  He escalated police violence and black distrust of whites.  Excruciating to live through as a Christian.  We are NOT black or white to God.  We are souls.  His children.  And there was NO attempt to unite but only dictatorial actions and stances.  There was an attempt to destroy democracy and to put the whole WORLD in turmoil by staging protests, creating unrest, pushing amorality wherever the President could.  I watched his wife run to try to catch up to him as he ignored her descending a plane or walking to meet someone.  He was no example of a good husband I would want.  He watched Christians be slaughtered around the world and closed his eyes to discrimination against whites and religious people in the workplace.