I've got a lot of guilt for leaving a lot of people behind in the US and who knows if anywhere is going to turn out to be better but damn my fears which lead me to start working on an exit plan within the first month of the Trump administration turned out to not be as irrational as I sometimes have felt like maybe they were

I often felt like I was overreacting, or that some people around me thought I was, but at this point I think it's pretty fair to say that things were as bad or worse than I was fearing