I've always been cheerfully optimistic, a "Pollyanna". No matter what happened, I naively believed things would turn out alright in the end - I pooh poohed the doomsayers. But the country's moral and political erosion under Trump, marked by chaos, uncertainty, brutality and authoritarianism, has shattered my sanguinity. I now feel that I exist in a twilight zone. I am no longer a Pollyanna.
March 2026