taking your "things are not so bad" point further-and I think this also addresses part of Chappelle's point too-no Poor Boys bogeymen civil war looting, shooting rioting and raping libs showing up as of yet, just sad press conferences at landscaping cos. and all-hat-no-cattle from rightwing congresspersons:

granted,.I may be speaking too soon. But I also suspect that if it happens soon, Joe would try to ameliorate somehow as he has declared victory. After all, he'd have to deal with it down the road anyways, might as well start now.

Partly FDR's "fear fear itself" admonition is operable here? Unless true anarchist believers, "they" are just angry people. How they act out depends upon whether others' fear gives them power to act out.? Scare yourself silly about "the other" and they just might get the idea to take advantage of that.

At the end of the monologue, Chappelle talked about whites dealing with their hate

When does that happen?

We have to keep in mind that Chappelle told us to give Trump a chance when Trump was elected. Chappelle had to apologize 

Days after Donald Trump was elected president, Dave Chappelle made his much-anticipated appearance hosting Saturday Night Live. Over 8 million people watched as Chappelle spent over 11 minutes on his monologue, commenting on everything from Harambe to Black Lives Matter, but it was his parting thoughts on Donald Trump that surprised viewers the most. After describing the hope he felt on a recent visit to the White House alongside other black, "historically disenfranchised" artists, he told the audience, “I’m wishing Donald Trump luck. And I’m going to give him a chance, and we, the historically disenfranchised, demand that he give us one too. Thank you very much.”

Six months later, Chappelle is taking it back. During his set at the Robin Hood Gala in New York on Monday, he offered up an apology for those choice words during his monologue, according to NBC’s Willie Geist, who was in the audience. “I was the first guy on TV to say ‘Give Trump a chance,’” he told the crowd. “I f—ed up. Sorry.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/05/dave-chappelle-donald-trump-snl-apology

I remember when Hillary lost, the message from Trump supporters was "F Your Feelings"

I hope Biden can reach across the aisle

I am not optimistic

Look for Executive Orders

go to Yglesias' new blog for more thought provocation on topic, https://www.slowboring.com/p/welcome-to-slow-boring, (should note this is no Dave Chapelle but an elitely raised and elitely educated kid of elite Spanish-Cubans and Jews, growing into an adult elite media person) Scroll down to 

[...] Outside the BA bubble

Trump’s victory in 2016 involved a significant number of people who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 flipping to Trump.

Those voters were predominantly white people with no college degree who lived in the north and were not religious (southern and religiously observant non-college whites having gone GOP in earlier cycles). Discussion of their voting behavior swiftly degenerated into a stupid argument in which one side said they voted for Trump because they were racists and another side said they voted for Trump because of “economic anxiety” or as a “rejection of neoliberalism” or some such. The evidence, however, was and always has been simply overwhelming that cultural attitudes were what drove the change.

Now words are just words and people can use them however they want. And certainly you can describe the cultural attitude of Obama/Trump vote-switchers as “racism” if you want to (certainly Trump himself said plenty of racist stuff and there are plenty of examples of Trump fans saying racist stuff and of racists praising Trump). The practical rhetorical function of that choice, however, was the anathematize the idea of trying to cater to their cultural attitudes at all even though whatever you want to say about those attitudes they were compatible with voting twice for a Black president [....]

I take a little comfort in knowing that not all African-Americans have written off the country as decisively as Ta Nehisi Coates has. Not that we don't need Coates.

a bit of news about Dave:

apropos of nothing except a surprise performance from Chappelle:

or maybe as Yglesias sort of implies, it is a signifier of future culture?

all that's going on is that MSM wants to get some of those passionate "culture wars" addicts on two opposing sides as viewers and clickers? and anyone who is signing Chapelle is looking to make money off the much bigger demographic who enjoy laughing at those culture warring people?

Gee, this sounds SO SO familiar:

The comedian Mort Sahl early in his career. An inveterate contrarian and a wide-ranging skeptic, he was known to ask audiences, “Are there any groups I haven’t offended?”Credit...Leo Friedman

Mort Sahl, Whose Biting Commentary Redefined Stand-Up, Dies at 94

A self-appointed warrior against hypocrisy, he revolutionized comedy in the 1950s by addressing political and social issues.

By Bruce Weber @ NYTimes.com, Oct. 26

Mort Sahl, who confronted Eisenhower-era cultural complacency with acid stage monologues, delivering biting social commentary in the guise of a stand-up comedian and thus changing the nature of both stand-up comedy and social commentary, died on Tuesday at his home in Mill Valley, Calif., near San Francisco. He was 94.

The death was confirmed by Lucy Mercer, a friend helping to oversee his affairs.

Gregarious and contentious — he was once described as “a very likable guy who makes ex-friends easily” — Mr. Sahl had a long, up-and-down career. He faded out of popularity in the mid-1960s, when he devoted his time to ridiculing the Warren Commission report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy; then, over the following decades, he occasionally faded back in. But before that he was a star and a cult hero of the intelligentsia [.....]

Always interesting to watch Barrington do his thing (for me he's more interesting than Chappelle):

The internet did something weird to our minds. It possibly made us more empathetic than before by putting every bit of the world on display. This is maybe why progressive politics have gone a much farther distance than they did during the other times you mentioned. But it also made us much, much more miserable for the same reason.

Those events from the 1960s or 1980s. Look at the movie Forrest Gump to see how people processed such events way back when. Forrest didn't feel ashamed for escalating many incidents in his life. What people thought of him didn't seem to phase him as much in real life as it may have it was in text. He sat on a park bench to tell his story because there was no Dagblog, no Facebook, etc. It was part of the passing scene. "That's all I got to say about that."

Compare that with reality TV or a Netflix show. Everything is demonstrated in its most gorey detail. It's no wonder millenials are so depressed.