Responses to Trump’s presidential victory have spanned just about all the five stages of grief — most notably: denial, anger, and depression. Many of Trump’s most ardent supporters — who praised the 70-year-old business tycoon’s ability to “tell it like it is” on the campaign trail — are now telling those anti-Trump protesters to get over it, just like Republicans did when Obama won in 2008. But comparing Trump’s election to 2008 is a fuzzy exercise in memory at best and a disturbing example of gaslighting at its worst.
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