A sometimes-amusing bout of liberal hand-wringing appeared in Sunday’s New York Times, as reporters John Leland and Hurubie Meko scoured the streets of Manhattan and found triumphant Trump supporters and scared but still pompous liberals.
When progressives held a post-election march in Manhattan last weekend, one New Yorker knew she had to be there.
With her Trump flag.
Mikaela Widlanski, who lives on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, does not display the flag in her famously liberal neighborhood. But this was a special occasion.
“If they’re upset,” she said, waving her flag at the demonstrators, “it’s not my fault.”
More than a week after Election Day, New Yorkers are still grappling with a changed reality, not just in Washington, but at home as well. The city, which had resoundingly rejected Donald J. Trump in his first two election bids,…
