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Q. How can I be calm, never mind hopeful, when my desired outcome comes with a sense of dread?

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I live in a small city that’s something of a borderland between a very liberal section of my pale-blue state and a more conservative part of it.

I’ve been anxious that something terrible will happen, either nationally or locally, if he loses.

I find myself wondering if I should prepare to lie low a few days after the election, regardless of its outcome.

John Sutter : How can I be calm, never mind hopeful, when even my desired outcome comes with a sense of dread? He says you should allow yourself to enjoy the prospect of your desired outcome without concerning yourself over the turbulence.

Sutter says the system is more in place than a steady diet of doomscrolling might suggest.