Last week we learned what many of us feared – half of people in the US worship a grotesquely disgusting creep. They voted him into the office of US president. Hate won.

Like many who envisioned a bright future ahead, with leaders who lifted people up instead of punching them down, that hope has been crushed. Electing Harris would have been the first step on the road to a positive future.

Most Trump supporters are very proud of their bigotry and wear self-identifying t-shirts and hats. I live in a mostly blue area of Washington. For me personally, the worst part is certain internet communities I’m a member of. Knowing there’s a 50/50 chance that any person I interact with there is a Trump supporter saddens me deeply.

Why? If you voted for Trump, this is what that says to me (and the blue half of the US) about who you are:

• You are a white supremacist. You could never vote for an extremely well qualified black woman over an extremely unqualified white male reality show host.
• You enjoy the idea of anyone who isn’t white enough getting deported, regardless of their immigration status.
• You are a fascist (but too stupid to recognize what fascism is).
• You are a misogynist, and your hate includes all women, even your own daughters. You don’t care if they die from treatable medical emergencies. If you are a woman, you especially hate yourself. To you, women are not human beings, they are property.
• You approve of rapists. Like Trump, you believe men are entitled to use women’s bodies however they wish and have probably acted accordingly.
• You are ableist.
• You are homophobic.
• You are transphobic and obsessed with other people’s genitals, especially school children’s.
• You are too stupid to understand that unless you are very wealthy, you will not be the exception.
• You have no empathy at all.

This is where a lot of bloggers outline their plan for coping and taking action. I still have hope for the future, but I don’t have a plan.

Yet.