My feeling about this presidential election? Nauseous optimism

‘The Republican Party has become headed by people who are utterly out of touch with the dominant and emerging values of America.’ Photograph: AP

I feel a nauseous optimism about the presidential election.

I chose the word nauseous over cautious because my stomach is churning at the very possibility Trump could get a second term. But I don’t believe that will happen. The progressive forces in America are overtaking the regressive.