The shockwaves felt across the US with Donald Trump’s upset victory were also felt across Boston. In the early morning hours as Florida, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania moved into Trump’s red column supporters of both candidates watched incredulously.
At a bar in Cleveland Circle a Trump supporter named John toggled emotionally between shock and cautious optimism with the thought that his candidate had just become President.
“I think there was a real silent majority out there that wasn’t saying much in letting their votes be known or letting their wishes be known.” And John said he was a part of that “silent majority”.
71-year old Trump booster, Al Montagne, looking up at CNN was ecstatic.
“The angry white man has spoken. They realize that four more years of what we’ve been getting is not the way to go.”
A Clinton supporter sitting in a corner of the bar by herself waved aside my microphone and said that the CNN commentator Van Jones summed up her feelings.
Many Clinton supporters in the bar watched the battery of television screens with tears in their eyes. But Richard Michaels, a former U.S. marine, was more angry than tearful.
“When we wake up tomorrow morning it won’t be a shining light in America. The man has been dark his entire campaign.”
And for that reason said Michaels he could never support Trump—America’s new President elect.
