The classic American marriage contains the beautiful scene of a husband unexpectedly finding that his wife has granted permission to “go big”.

My favorite illustration of this was captured by a commercial, some years ago, where after the husband puts the new big screen TV into the TV stand, he stands back, admiring his TV. The wife walks in and is not immediately impressed.

Baffled, and fearing the worst, he asks her, with trepidation, “What?”

She answers, “It’s just that there is a lot of…space.”

The scene continues with the husband microscopically examining the fit of the new bigger screen TV. He is squinting and running his hand along border between the TV and the TV stand. His wife comes in this time, and is visibly strained.

She says, “It is fine.”

He responds and concludes the anecdote with, “I can still see light!”

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As you no doubt have seen, there are red/blue county maps of America making their way around the web and one headline I saw claimed, “There are no blue states.”

Translation: there are blue counties in otherwise red states, and there are states composed entirely of red counties.

Implication: All of the United States of America, not merely the 75,000,000 voters and electoral college, just told Trump, like a loving wife, “Treat yourself!”

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Yes, that’s the best analogy of the passing scene, I should think.