If we’re right, how come we’re losing so much?
Since the election of 2016, I have been dealing with one level of depression or another. I was shocked and devastated by Trump’s victory. I had urged my friends and relatives to vote for Clinton, whether they liked her or not, for the sake of the Supreme Court. I never imagined that not only would we lose the White House, but the Senate too. And Mitch McConnell would get to steal that Supreme Court seat from us.
Then came the retirement of Justice Kennedy, and my depression only deepened. Most liberals know what I’m talking about.
Unfortunately, having spent most of my adult life working for and supporting liberal candidates and causes, I am very familiar with this feeling. Over the course of my career, I have definitely lost more than I have won. While I never imagined a few years ago that marriage equality would be the law of the land right now, neither did I imagine that Roe v. Wade would be in such danger.
For my entire life, my liberalism has been based upon a deep spirituality that has only grown as I have gotten older. During high school and college, I went through a period of rejecting the religion into which I was raised, but I returned to it with a more sophisticated, nuanced view of the Almighty.
