“On Wednesday, January 20th, the current president of the United States will drink his very last Diet Coke in the Oval Office. On Wednesday, January 20th, our national nightmare will be over. It will be the end of four very dark years in American history. It will be the end of separating children at the border, it will be the end of ignoring the pandemic, it will be the end of the insane tweets (well, at least the end of insane tweets from a sitting president). Military actions will no longer be announced on social media. White House press releases will no longer be typo-riddled messes that link to stories by far-right publications. A lunatic will no longer have access to the nuclear codes. Our government will no longer be stacked with kleptocrats like the president’s eldest daughter, the president’s son-in-law, the sleepy Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, and various other low-level grifters. We will no longer worry about the President of the United States weaponizing the federal government against its citizens. We will no longer see photos of children on the Mexican border being blasted with tear gas. We will no longer be a cautionary tale for what happens when you elect the con-man monorail guy from The Simpsons. Other countries will no longer pity us. Our Canadian neighbors will no longer feel like the family that accidentally bought the apartment over the meth lab.”

Our Long National Nightmare is Finally Over (Vogue)