The thing is that this is not simply a Republican win, which may make Democrats unhappy.  Here, we have a man who is about to become our President, who is a serious liar (he doesn't even seem to be aware of when he is lying), who has made statements that are clearly racist and xenophobic, who has bragged about sexually assaulting women, who thinks that religion ought to be a basis for excluding people from the US,  whose spokespeople have warned the press and others to b careful about how others criticize him, who has said that he will bomb Syria to h*ll.........
No, this is different from anything that I have experienced in my life.  I certainly cannot accept it as being just another election that "my side" has lost.