Squeeze Me (Skink #8)

by Carl Hiaasen

He was lanky, silver-haired, seasonally Catholic and steeply neo-conservative. It was Kiki Pew’s commiserative coddling that got him through the Obama years, though at times she feared that her excitable spouse might physically succumb from the day-to-day stress of having a black man in the Oval Office.

We all know people who stayed apoplectic for the entire Obama administration. They’d never admit it was because they couldn’t stand the idea of having a Black president, but the truth was obvious in conversations. I’m sure some of them didn’t make it through Obama’s second term.