An article for The Huffington Post by Roy Speckhardt on the 2016 election results.

It’s past due time for progressive America to rethink its strategies. With the steady, numeric rise of freethinkers, people of color, supporters of the LGBTQ community, seculars and other progressive people declared victory far in advance of realizing it. As we projected what would happen as we saw the end of White Christian America, there was a sense that the final waves of backwards thinking were finally on their last gasp. But for those who went to sleep last night hoping for the best, they awakened to a very different reality.

Read the full article on The Huffington Post here.