Maintaining a cheerful mood during the death of democracy is not an easy task. Even people I know who take Lexipro feel like they’ve wandered onto the set of “Dr. Strangelove.”

Sure, protests are a good way to soothe your fury with hundreds of other like-minded people expressing their own angst, but you can’t preach to the choir all the time, so how do you keep from sinking into the marsh of despair when you’re alone?

For starters, I’ve stopped watching TV news. Who needs to follow this catastrophe every depressing day? Why do I have to see videos of Donald Trump destroying something new every hour? By now, I get the gist. Pundits seem surprised that he’s moving us toward authoritarian rule even after he said he was going to be a dictator, but just for one day. Uh huh. What wannabe dicta

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