Because why would I?

Anyhow,  I got a text from him the morning after the Orange Man Bad won bigly. It read as follows:

If you don't understand why your gay friend is scared right now then you don't have a gay friend. You know a gay person.

Scared right now? Of what, exactly? I asked my gay friend – and he was unable to answer with any specifics. The fear seems to be – to crib a line from Franklin Roosevelt – fear, itself. Like the fear of "COVID."

In other words, the fear of nothing at all.

Most of the people who voted for the Bad Orange Man did not vote for him because they want gay people hounded. They want the chaos ended. They want adult sexual provocateurs  – these are styled "drag queens" – kept out of schools and away from minor children. They voted to not be hounded by mentally ill people who think of themselves as plural – they/them – rather than he or she. Most do not give a damn whether a grown man wants to dress like a woman and pretend to be a woman. They voted to not be hectored to consider them actually women. They voted to get them out of women's dressing and locker rooms; out of women's sports.

Is any of that "scary"?

I asked my friend for answers. He had none. Rather, he had none that were rational, grounded in fact. What he did have was a lot of fear about what Trump might do.

What the Orang Man actually does seems not to matter to people such as my friend. He – like many on the other side – is terrified that Trump will assume dictatorial power. I reminded him that Trump was president already and did no such thing then – even during the "COVID" freak out, when he probably could have and probably would have gotten away with it. And when it might have been right – as to counteract the unlawful edicts of the state-level Gesundheitsfuhrers who turned the country into a dictatorship – in the name of "health" and "safety."

It doesn't register.