Best comment yet is from Marina Hyde in today's Guardian:

"With the future and democratic reputation of the American republic hanging in the balance, this is not an occasion for bombast. Rather it is time to reach humbly in the darkness, seeking only to summon such measured words as convey the
intense dignity of this moment. In short, I think we all feel the hand of history on our pussies."

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