Media gloomily reflect on election one year later

Published November 7, 2017 3:57pm ET



Some in the news media are still reeling and somberly reflecting on their feelings about President Trump’s historic win one year after his upset election victory. Journalists and political commentators this week recalled how they felt on election night last year and some suggested they still haven’t moved on.

In an op-ed headlined “Anniversary of the Apocalypse,” liberal New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg said Monday night, “In the terror-struck and vertiginous days after Donald Trump’s election a year ago, as I tried to make sense of America’s new reality, I called people who lived, or had lived, under authoritarianism to ask what to expect.” She added she’s “still poleaxed by grief at the destruction of our civic inheritance.”

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