In addition... Worth reading...

Here's how poet and musician friend Clara Hsu put it this week:

"I want to say something intelligent about the outcome of our election but cannot. Only that now, more than ever, we have a moral responsibility to ensure the viability of art, music and poetry. They are the true grains that make us grow as human beings. My eyes are set upon them and nothing else."
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Ken Knabb
OUT IN THE OPEN / Remarks on the Trump Election
http://www.bopsecrets.org/recent/trump.htm

A Cornel West piece:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/17/american-neoliberalism-cornel-west-2016-election 

Richard Rorty in 1998:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/19/donald-trump-us-election-prediction-richard-rorty

Daniel Duane in NYTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/sunday/i-wish-we-all-could-be-californian.html

José Antonio Vargas, 19 November 2016, NYTimes:
Undocumented in Trump’s America - The New York Times 

Charles Simic article from 2004 (NYRB):
One of the first pieces I recall reading about whole groups of people supporting social policies and voting against what would seem to be their own best interests:  
Down There on a Visit | by Charles Simic | The New York Review of Books

Charles Simic, NYRB 2016: 
Expendable America | by Charles Simic | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

Rebecca Solnit, The Guardian, 6 Dec 2016:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/06/standing-rock-protest-success-demonstrations

Pankaj Mishra, The Guardian. 8 December 2016:
A bit long, but links together many important points
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/08/welcome-age-anger-brexit-trump 

Richard Rodriguez, Reuters column, August 2015: 
Ladies and gentlemen, let's get ready to Trump-le! | Reuters 

Zadie Smith, "On Optimism and Despair," from the 12/22/2016 NYRB:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/12/22/on-optimism-and-despair/

Timothy Snyder, the Yale historian's facebook post  on what we can learn for today from the authoritarian regimes of the 20th Century:
https://www.facebook.com/timothy.david.snyder/posts/1206636702716110