When This Blows Over

At the end of the play, a savage, merciless nemesis is
unleashed on the hubristic wise of the establishment.
Euripides would have appreciated the ironies of the 2016
election. Millions of Americans, far from the two coasts,
kept largely quiet.
They either did not talk much to pollsters or they politely
declined to reveal their true feelings. They tuned out
talking heads and ignored blue-chip pundits. They did not
listen to the shrill bombast of President Obama on the
campaign trail or pollsters who ad nauseam declared
Hillary Clinton the sure electoral-college winner. They
were not shamed or much bothered by the condescension
they receive from the media and the Washington elite,
who proved wrong or biased or both in their coverage.
They believed that free trade was not worth much if it was
not fair trade, that illegal and politicized immigration was
as subversive as legal and diverse immigration was
valuable, that real racists were those who used race and
ethnicity to encourage others to break the law for their
own political and elite interests, and that it was stupid to
trust their job futures to those who never lost their own
jobs while often losing those of others.