I get
- Feeling good and temporarily even a bit superior because your candidate won
- Feeling sad that an issue you feel strongly about is not seen the same way by a majority of others
- Subscribing to traditional teachings from a trusted source, whether it’s church, family, or something else
I don’t get
- Being ungracious about your candidate’s having lost and excusing it because “you wouldn’t have been gracious if my candidate had won”
- Implying that everyone is sad about a particular candidate’s victory, even though that candidate handily carried your state
- Claiming to know exactly what God thinks about all this