Post US election, a sombre thanksgiving
While Donald Trump stuffs his cabinet with controversial figures, millions of dinner tables were divided by political allegiance
Thanksgiving is a strange holiday this year in the Sundered States of America, what with the current bipolarity of the American psyche. Half the country is riding a tsunami of jubilation and triumphalism, while the other half is sucked under by a riptide of disbelief and depression.
Families have been divided by this election. Friends are not speaking. Not since the days after the September 11, 2001 attacks have I witnessed this country ...