"What have you got to lose?"

Trump asked that question of African-Americans in his last election.

It turns out that America had everything to lose.

The grass is not always greener. A businessman does not always know how best to run a government.

Republicans invested everything in the criminal charlatan now occupying the White House.

I think it is now safe to say that Hillary Clinton would have been a 1000% better as a president. But, even now, the cult of Trump would never admit it.

No doubt, she would have been more competent, more stable, more moral, more compassionate, more patriotic, more presidential, and far more intelligent than Donald J Trump.

Supporters of Mr Trump were willing to gamble with the survival of our country. They bought into the showman. They knew who he was, yet they voted for him. Even today, they would say, "at least he isn't Hillary".

We hold no hopes that they will ever escape from their cage of denial. They are prisoners of their own doing.