Not just any woman.

Some of us know that. We know that Hillary is a once in a history woman.

Before the debacle which is this election, I would lightly and very occasionally say, yes, she is like Martin Luther King.

I didn't want to impinge on someone else's sacred figure (who is my hero too.) I didn't want to violate someone else's hagiography. But I knew I was right.

There are few in that category.

Hillary is a visionary and she has changed the world twice. Human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights. 1995. Gay rights are human rights. 2012.

And the shot of gender freedom and hope rang round the world.

And all the media wanted to discuss was emails, which, when read, only revealed how remarkable she is.

For 100 years, we have fought for gender fairness and every other kind of fairness too- racial justice, economic justice, LGBTQ rights, disability rights. We have taught our children to be respectful of others. A century in which we engaged in dialogues of fairness and worked on strategies to execute it.

This loss is a rejection of all we have fought for, all we value, all that matters to us. All that America evolved to since the 19th Amendment in 1920.

Not just any man. Not just any Republican.

A crackpot. A masculinist bully and bigot in a baseball cap spewing hatred. An anti-fairness demagogue. An incompetent narcissist. A racist. A man who mocks the disabled. A sexual predator. A man who denies science. A would-be dictator who threatens to jail his political opponent. A cruel, violent and mean man who believes he is superior because of his genes and his "German blood."

Trump ruptures the arc of moral history which we all believed was bending toward justice. Bending toward justice -as Hillary and Martin assured us.

Not just any woman. This woman.

Hillary won the popular vote but she will not be our President. That is why we weep. That is why history weeps.

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November 17,2016