David Remnick in the New Yorker offers even less salve than I did in his piece: An American Tragedy: “That he has prevailed, that he has won this election, is a crushing blow to the spirit; it is an event that will likely cast the country into a period of economic, political, and social uncertainty that we cannot yet imagine. That the electorate has, in its plurality, decided to live in Trump’s world of vanity, hate, arrogance, untruth, and recklessness, his disdain for democratic norms, is a fact that will lead, inevitably, to all manner of national decline and suffering.” (I hope he’s wrong, but this is basically how I feel.)

+ Andrew Sullivan: “This is now Trump’s America. He controls everything from here on forward. He has won this campaign in such a decisive fashion that he owes no one anything. He has destroyed the GOP and remade it in his image. He has humiliated the elites and the elite media. He has embarrassed every pollster and naysayer. He has avenged Obama. And in the coming weeks, Trump will not likely be content to bask in vindication. He will seek unforgiving revenge on those who dared to oppose him.”

+ Quartz: “As America woke up to president-elect Donald Trump, who famously and frequently pledged to build a wall across America’s border with Mexico, it’s worth remembering that today is the 27th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.”