The electoral walk of shame.

Naturally, I'm a little disheartened by yesterday's U.S. Election results. How can a nation move from a distinctly "presidential" president—Obama, whose wit, intellectual power, and self-awareness are truly extraordinary—to a distinctly un-"presidential" one—Trump, whose careless language and lack of filter humiliates him on a daily basis—within one cycle? What gives?

And how can the Republican Party live with itself when it allowed this bombastic outlier a stage, despite their best efforts to stop him?

I was hopeful that Peter Coffin's "Election Pre-Post mortem" would seem quaint after the election, but the video hits hard with this result. The system is a problem in the USA, and the status quo's resiliency has never been more certain than it is with Trump's win. I've embedded Coffin's video below.

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I was really hopeful that this wasn't going to be so pertinent, @petercoffin. https://t.co/14bEigPHzI #ElectionHangover

— Jeffrey Nordstrom (@jeffnords) November 9, 2016

With some different solutions to the same problem, On The Media also concluded that The system is rigged., but not in the way Donald Trump says it is. I've also embedded it below.

Today it hits harder than it did two days ago: https://t.co/pJRPBA4QLU

— Jeffrey Nordstrom (@jeffnords) November 9, 2016

So, U.S.A., what are you going to do? How will you rescue yourselves over the next four years of national and international humiliation? How will you tame Donald Trump to work in your favour and not just his own?

I, for one, recommend a National Day of Mourning for November 9. Let us mourn the death of decency and civility in the world's most important military power. Let us mourn how this election represents backwards steps for social justice. Let us mourn our mistrust of experts and people with experience in national leadership. Let us mourn the choice to democratically lean on a decidedly undemocratic leader.

​And let us mourn the ascendancy of the stupid.

Whatever it is, it's never too stupid to happen.

— Carrie Poppy (@CarriePoppyYES) November 9, 2016