It’s a Tuesday night, right around 7 p.m. You feel anxious, but you’re in decent shape. Around 8:30, you’re feeling good. Your side will win. You know it. Until around 9. At 9, you look up at the numbers and realize that things suddenly don’t look good. It all looks weird. It doesn’t look like you drew it up, or how you even expected it to be just a few minutes before.
For the sizable contingent of Georgetown Hoyas fans who did not support Donald J. Trump for President, this script has now run in pretty much the same fashion two weeks in a row.