[dropcap]L[/dropcap]ooking around the ballroom, the first thing you notice is the lack of regalia – no tuxes, no flowing gowns, no shiny footwear, no clinking jewels.

Nor should there be, for this is the Inaugural Consolation Ball for the people of Not Trump Nation.

There is nothing to celebrate for them – for us – when into the Oval Office strides meanness and venality in the place of grace and dignity.

It’s bad. But some things about the Inaugural Consolation Ball are quit...