I’ve been fortunate in that it hasn’t come up in public. In private I’ve told someone I know to cut it out with the e-mail forwards about #nextpresident, but that happened during the election. I did hear one second-hand story from a friend who had dinner with an old schoolmate and his wife. My friend was going on as usual about his amazement that millions of women voted for this gross chauvinist pig, to which the wife icily responded, “including me.” Silence for a moment, broken by the husband who said, “yeah, the two of us haven’t been talking about politics for a while now.”
The essay does one thing very well: it makes the not-always-obvious distinction between BS and lies. This is a useful thing to know when a grifter slimes his way into one’s life (e.g. the next four years for every American).
