We're all mad here!

I've always been a fan of Lewis Carroll's Alice books. First as a child, and even more as an adult after reading Martin Gardiner's brilliant "The Annotated Alice," I delighted in the cleverness, the zaniness, the INSANITY of it all. I never thought I'd find myself in a dystopian version of Wonderland, a world in which so much makes no sense that I want to get back to my own side of the looking glass.

If I hadn't seen, heard and lived through the lunacy of the last (almost) two years, I would have thought that a raven is indeed like a writing desk. Could anyone have dreamt these events possible in the 21st century?

• The Senate refused to hold a hearing to a Presidential nominee for the Supreme Court. 
• A wealthy man with no governing experience announces he is running for President of the United States. He loses the popular vote, but wins in the Electoral College, despite the fact that he (among other things):
• Insulted the Hispanic population of the U.S. by calling Mexican immigrants criminals and drug dealers;
• Refused to release his tax returns
• Was shown and heard on tape making disparaging remarks about women;
• Encouraged Russia to hack the Democrats;
• Had a campaign manager that attacked a reporter;
• Had a campaign advisor that is a blatant racist and anti-Semite;
• Had not one specific plan for implementing his ideas;
• Incited his supporters to harm and/or jail his opponent.
• Installed Cabinet Secretaries who by and large want to destroy the departments they head.
• Refused to separate himself from his businesses and brought his (also inexperienced) children in to the White House as advisors.
• The Republican-owned Congress is doing nothing to stop this man from destroying our country.
• Here's the big one:the people who voted for him still support him!

I keep hoping I'll wake up and this will have been some horrific nightmare. But it's real. And it feels like there's no way out.